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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by vlovich123 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:34PM (#25817798)
The technical and product requirements that Signal is solving is drastically different to anything attempted before in the open source community. Signal is only looking to generate a movement to guarantee e2e encryption across all chat and social stacks. They don’t care who ends up owning the social wars, as long as that becomes the new standard. Think of it as an attempt to strike at the heart of the capitalistic forces that have diverted that kind of research away from production. It’s a brilliant strategic play they’re doing so I’m more grateful to figuring out how to do that because it looked like it had repeatedly failed in the past.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by joe_the_user on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:42PM (#25817843)
I'm in one reading group that uses signal primarily for its communication. We have not been able to figure out what we're going to read next because suggested texts get lost as people make random comments.

I hope that post Facebook messages gets to the level of threaded messages. Sometimes pure chat is enough and sometimes chat is really annoying for accomplishing things.

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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by nyokodo on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:09AM (#25819078)
Maybe have a channel for chat and a separate one for reading suggestions?
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by oh_sigh on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:31AM (#25818516)
The alternative to capitalistic forces showing you ads personalized based on your conversation isn't to get the same app with no ads at all - it is either get the same app just with non-personalized ads, or no app at all.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by remexre on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:11AM (#25818735)
well... signal doesn't have ads...
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by nine_k on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:19AM (#25818784)
Why, outright paying for products and services is pretty capitalistic! Works well in many cases.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by esyir on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:20AM (#25819477)
That's a fine argument and all, but practically speaking, we see that as driven content for free outcompetes.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by vlovich123 on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:10AM (#25869542)
Disallowing such content then might be the right solution if you view the societal trade offs as not being worth the increased economic activity.
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