Re:Signal is having technical difficulties
by calcifer on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:25PM
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> and encourages you to shill it to friends as such
Despite your deliberate conflation of them, shill and recommend are not synonyms
> Cheerleading your users endorsement of privacy on twitter during an outage is insulting.
How is a non-profit charity saying "we are having trouble right now but thanks for all the support" insulting? How did these folks insult you?
> Tesla, Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp
These are all corporations that ultimately only care about money. They have customers. Signal has supporters.
> because Moxies waiting for an IPO, or an offer from FAANG to buy him out
Just like all the other 501c3 IPOs and buyouts, right?
> this was a disaster for Signal and most of HN is about to break an arm patting the company on the back
A charity is having a temporary problem most HN readers would kill to have: They literally can't scale up fast enough to meet demand. Truly a disaster.
Despite your deliberate conflation of them, shill and recommend are not synonyms
> Cheerleading your users endorsement of privacy on twitter during an outage is insulting.
How is a non-profit charity saying "we are having trouble right now but thanks for all the support" insulting? How did these folks insult you?
> Tesla, Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp
These are all corporations that ultimately only care about money. They have customers. Signal has supporters.
> because Moxies waiting for an IPO, or an offer from FAANG to buy him out
Just like all the other 501c3 IPOs and buyouts, right?
> this was a disaster for Signal and most of HN is about to break an arm patting the company on the back
A charity is having a temporary problem most HN readers would kill to have: They literally can't scale up fast enough to meet demand. Truly a disaster.
> I fully expect to be downvoted to oblivion
I wonder why.