Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
by drcongo on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:20PM
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Thank you, I agree with everything you said here. But I'd also like to address the other things I was answering with the drawbacks quip...
> WhatsApp is basically a utility-level communication system for a big chunk of the globe.
Unfortunately, it's not an actual utility though, which is precisely my point. It's pure folly to build your business around a pseudo utility owned by a private company.
> Instagram is a key cultural driver of the Western world.
I honestly have no idea how this is being presented as a good thing. A "key cultural driver of the western world" is an app whose entire purpose is to harvest your data and sell it to dodgy partners who will use it to usurp democracy.
> WhatsApp is basically a utility-level communication system for a big chunk of the globe.
Unfortunately, it's not an actual utility though, which is precisely my point. It's pure folly to build your business around a pseudo utility owned by a private company.
> Instagram is a key cultural driver of the Western world.
I honestly have no idea how this is being presented as a good thing. A "key cultural driver of the western world" is an app whose entire purpose is to harvest your data and sell it to dodgy partners who will use it to usurp democracy.