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Survey: Who of you here does uses fakebook (or whatsapp or instagram)?
| I keep my facebook for messenger and various niche groups, but i dont post anything anymore.
| There's no way I'm gonna believe you don't use whatsapp.
| I don't use them but I have accounts
| I never use any of those three, until I moved. Now I have to use all three, since people rely on them for coordination. I hate this.
| I use none of them. I used to have a facebook as recently as 2010, but its abandoned and purged.
| Deleted my fb account 2 years ago, when it became trash, never used ig but somwhow i have an empty account there, which i cant even access because i don't know the password... But i still need whatsapp for class groups, but even this I'm planning on deleting it because they are gonna have ads soon.
| I have IG and whatsapp. There's really no way around whatsapp if you don't want to be left out. At least my whole class moved to threema. Trying to get more people to transfer.
| I fucking hate all of it, especially getting peerpressured into installing absolute botnet trash like WhatsApp.
| >>477264
Lol why not. There are many better alternatives. The best one is conversations, as its foss, supports end2end encryption with pgp and relies on the decentral jabber/xmpp network. I can even use it on my desktop witg psi+. No shitty webapp with slow and shitty javascript bloat. All my important people have it (except those who haven't a fartphone at all).
| /tech/ is probably making tin foil companies millions, you know with all those hats you guys make.
| >>477346
I actually work at a "tinfoil company". Most of our customers are lawyers and doctors but also companies that want (or even have to) not to offer their informational to third parties.
Also it's not only about privacy but also about freedom of choice. Just look at this >>477313 :
>There's really no way around whatsapp if you don't want to be left out.
I get the point of this g/u/rl, but Wtf? Where is the so called "free market"?
| >>477344 while I am against shitty webapps, I don't feel compelled to switch to your alternative because normal people don't need pgp or decenralization.
| >>477413
Well, pgp is optional and also easier end-to-end encryption frameworks like omemo are available.
And I think "normal people" need decentralization. Because Centralized solutions create collective dependency to one provider, which is bad for everyone.
Also I have problems with this idea of orienting everything to what economists/company owners think what "normal people" are and they need. Some of them also think "normal ppl" don't need democracy, free speech, privacy, etc.
| >>477413
"Normal ppl don’t need good things"
They prefer being stabbed.
Now if you would exscuse me i got a dark alley to walk down
| >talking about normal people in /tech/
| >>477614
"normal" is no qualifying feature. It's only a quantifying. A majority dictating a minority whats right and wrong, what they are allowed to do and use or not is as bad as the other way around. Proprietary software and centralized web-services is the dictature of an ingorant and massively authority-dependend majority ("normies") over minorities that value freedom and privacy (for everyone, not only the rich).
| >>477313
Being left out is not that bad imo. Allows to discern between meaningful relationships and just social noise.
The peace is enjoyable.
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| Because I don't. I had an account years ago, but only for the chat. I deleted it when they closed the xmpp interface so that I couldn't use my preffered client anymore and when the first fakenews campaigns started.