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Facebook was blocking Distrowatch

www.theregister.com

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Facebook was blocking Distrowatch

www.theregister.com

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Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile

Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.

Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/

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    24•7 months ago

    No wonder why WhatsApp isn’t on Linux.

    • @passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world
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      I have no clue how people trust whatsapp

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        16•7 months ago

        i still need it for friends,family and stuff

        • @SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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          39•7 months ago

          The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

          You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

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            7•7 months ago

            I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.

            • youmaynotknow
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              https://media.tenor.com/iWH2JuFYqoUAAAAM/go-on-continue.gif

    • @CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

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        Sounds like a cool app.

      • @u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        First time I heard of Ferdium. How’s your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?

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          I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.

          If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy

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            Like pidgin?

            • @Samespot@lemmy.world
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              Wait pidgin still works?

              • irelephant [he/him]🍭
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                Yeah, I use it daily. There is discord and teams plugins for it.

                • @Samespot@lemmy.world
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                  How to install whatsapp and telegram plugins?

                  • irelephant [he/him]🍭
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                    https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type= There is a list of them here.

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          I’ve never used beeper, but I’ve been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:

          • WhatsApp
          • Hangouts
          • Discord
          • Element (Matrix)
          • Nextcloud Chat
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      It really comes down to what platforms they have with government backdoors & data sharing. If they know the government might not be able to access “encrypted” data then they’d rather suck the balls of government than create it anyway. Look at what happened to the Telegram CEO when he created the encryption & told the government to fuck off.

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