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  • Mastodon is a bubble. You have primarily highly educated, tech-literate nerds on that platform.

    Obviously people are more civil and polite there, than some raging uneducated losers and trolls on facebook.

    As the fediverse grows, the userbase will obviously lose this current isolated tech-wizard school vibe, and feel more like going into a random pub in a big city. Regardless if Meta joins the fediverse or not.



  • When I used Facebook a few years ago, my feed was mostly memes, ads and personal posts from friends and family.

    Maybe I never got the ragebait political stuff, because everyone in my friend circle wasn’t keen on being the sad guy that publicly yells at clouds on facebook.

    Popular hashtags on Twitter and to some extend even on Mastodon, just makes you feel bad for the mental health of these perma-raging users tho.

    Political spaces in general on every social platform are just magnets for misery.



  • American drivers licenses are basically just EU style ID cards. For new licenses you even need biometric data. State IDs and the “Passport Card” are (somewhat obscure) alternatives.

    Europeans only need to apply for ID cards at around the age, were the average American gets their driver’s license.

    A young American adult is probably almost just as identifiable by their government, as a young European adult would be by theirs.

    Seeing regulations like the REAL ID act, I would say that America is headed towards more identification, rather than less.






  • Maybe you could try to convince through other features, like sending sharper images, videos, audio messages or video calling etc.

    If you get closer with her friend circle (or if she gets closer to your friend circle), you could propose to make a group chat, where you can keep each other up to date or plan future activities together. Your wife will probably not want to miss out on that.

    Don’t talk about encryption or security to normal people, who are not into tech. They do not care. Only talk about features, that they can actually use, and only in situations were this would be useful. Don’t be preachy about your messenger use, don’t make them feel stupid.




  • I don’t get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?

    Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.

    Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:

    Android SMS
    
    Bump!
    
    Cloud to Device Messaging
    
    Chat (not the same as Google Chat)
    
    Disco
    
    Dodgeball
    
    Firebase Cloud Messaging
    
    Gizmo5
    
    Gmail
    
    GTalkService
    
    Google+
    
    Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)
    
    Google+ Messenger
    
    Google.com/talk
    
    Google Allo
    
    Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)
    
    Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)
    
    Google Buzz
    
    Google Chat
    
    Google Cloud Messaging
    
    Google Docs
    
    Google Docs Editor Chat
    
    Google Duo
    
    Google Fi
    
    Google Friend Connect
    
    Google Groups
    
    Google Hangouts
    
    Google Hangouts Chat
    
    Google Hangouts Meet
    
    Google Helpouts
    
    Google Huddle
    
    Google Latitude
    
    Google Maps Messages
    
    Google Meet
    
    Google Messenger SMS
    
    Google Pay Messages
    
    Google Phone Messaging
    
    Google Photos Messages
    
    Google Schemer
    
    Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)
    
    Google Stadia Messages
    
    Google Talk
    
    Google Voice
    
    Google Voice Legacy
    
    Google Voice Third-party Apps
    
    Google Voice for G Suite
    
    Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)
    
    Google Wave
    
    GrandCentral Communications
    
    Jaiku
    
    Jibe Mobile
    
    Meebo
    
    Messages
    
    Orkut
    
    Postini
    
    Slide
    
    Sparrow
    
    YouTube Messages
    


  • Redesigns are always perceived poorly. Every decrease in performance, every lost feature, every relocated setting is heavily felt by all the power-users. For new users tho, K9 probably became more viable/attractive.

    Eventually people will get used to the design, performance issues will get fixed, new features will be (re)added and the rating will improve again.

    Same thing happened with the Firefox Android Browser.