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Re:Ask HN: How Would You Build an Ethical Facebook Replacement? by sbinthree on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:03AM (#16627750)
Signal does 90% of what Facebook did that mattered, the only thing I miss is topical groups. I probably travel in unusual circles but everyone is on Signal and only half are still on Facebook.
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Re:Ask HN: How Would You Build an Ethical Facebook Replacement? by howlinbash on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:11AM (#16627798)
I disagree.

Signal does a very important part but not 90%.

what about news feed, events, calendar, status updates, groups, pages, profile walls...

These are all mega useful tools that are used by 2 billion people for a reason!

I <3 Signal and I've converted many non-techies to it but I cannot easily inform everyone that I'm having a baby and they also cannot do this.

But I'm glad you're using it. it's a wonderful tool.

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