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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by alx__ on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:08AM (#32247674)
For me, a large majority of my friend/family updates come through group chats.

I have 4 large (10+) groups that are friend groupings from different interest areas. Which use iMessage/WhatsApp/Signal

1 huge one for a group of concert/rave friends on Signal

3 overlapping groups of various family-relatives using iMessage/WhatsApp

I don't even need to open FB/IG anymore. Bye Felica

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by jackdh on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:19AM (#32247726)
Until they start to require Facebook to log into WhatsApp..
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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by alx__ on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:37AM (#32247846)
It won't be very challenging to get folks to move to Signal
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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by guilamu on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:26AM (#32247771)
Then just leave for Telegram which is infinetly better (their native windows client is just incredible compared to the other atrocious electron based chat apps) or even better for Signal which is not as feature rich yet but open source.
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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by oynqr on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:24AM (#32248102)
Telegram doesn't do e2ee by default, no thanks.
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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by dmix on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @08:19AM (#32249566)
So you can turn it on for your group then?

Signal has an excellent app these days and supports encrypted group chat. But Whatsapp doesnt require convincing people.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by toastal on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:06AM (#32248014)
While missing the Matrix, Wire, and IRC options?
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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by Deukhoofd on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:23AM (#32248093)
Which is something the EU effectively banned last week, in the Digital Markets Act.
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