A UK-based software company called Threads Software Limited is threatening legal action against Meta over its use of the name Threads.
  • PrivateNoobEnglish
    76•1 year ago

    Fuck I wish my old elementary school friends and parents wouldn’t use Messenger. I’m eternslly stuck on that platform.

    • LUHGEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      You can trial out a new platform called beeper.com

      It allows you to add all your chats to 1 platform. It’s in selected participants mode currently.

    • @camr_on@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      Does Whatsapp connect to messenger like Instagram does? Not sure it’s any better though, since it’s still owned by Meta. I wish I could get everyone on signal

        • @camr_on@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Yeah, encryption and security is signal’s whole thing. They even removed the ability to send SMS a while back because they were prioritizing security over all else. Def check it out

        • @QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Of course it does? That’s like one of the main headlining features of both Signal and Telegram, and why people were looking at either instead of Whatsapp. And it was even louder than Telegram about it, since telegram uses (or used) a closed source encryption, while Signal was vocally using an Open Source encryption standard if I remember correctly.

    • @pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      i saw one person do something like this: messages JOIN ME ON SIGNAL(or anything not owned by Facebook and amazon) IF YOU DON’T WANT TO WELL WILL LOSE CONTACT SO PLEASE JOIN ME

      im not sure on how well this will work but maybe exclude you’re family but try to get them to atleast WhatsApp but even better a private messager also consider xmpp/jabber and matrix for jabber i recommend calyx institute jabber server

      • BilliamEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        try to get them to atleast WhatsApp

        WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook, so switching to that from Messenger is a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

          • lemmyvoreEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Yeah but that doesn’t prevent them from snooping directly on the app. For example they can look at who you’re talking to the most, or extract topics of interest from your conversations (“talking about cats? let’s sell them cat food”)

    • @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -5•1 year ago

      You’re not stuck. Just leave, and make people talk to you over Signal. If they’re not trying to talk to me on Signal or Matrix, I will never see it. This not only got me off of services like Messenger, but also showed who gave enough of a shit about me to go through Signal’s simple setup.

        • @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          Two way street indeed, I didn’t say all of them followed me or anything like that. I lost contact with many doing this, as expected and intended. But I got much closer to those who did move over. Most of them moved over without me even doing anything because they cared about their own data privacy and realized that it’s easier to setup Signal than it is to setup an entire Facebook account anyway.

          • @JiraiyaIsNoLyah@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            8•1 year ago

            Man… What happened to just texting your circle of friends?? I get by pretty well doing that. About half are on signal. The other half just text regular, which I’m cool with.