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Re:I deleted my social media accounts by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:28AM (#42682001)
What has that got to do with social media?

Instant messaging and group chat, I’d argue, are distinct services / protocols / products vis-à-vis social media.

Strained analogies are weird. I like to call them sieved analogies, the other definition of strained.

I strained your analogy and threw out the dross.

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Re:I deleted my social media accounts by BlueTemplar on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:17AM (#42695672)
If GP has an issue with Zuckerberg => Meta, they might have an issue with WhatsApp too.

The "protocols vs platforms" struggle is more relevant than ever.

(I am surprised that GP doesn't seem to have heard of Mastodon?)

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Re:I deleted my social media accounts by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:18AM (#42709320)
Approximately no one I’ve ever know in Australia uses WhatsApp, so I generally don’t remember to remember it in these conversations.

I think I once used it to advise someone it’s owned my Facebook and sent them my public key.

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