I seem to remember something like that was discussed at some point in Signal Community and one of the big arguments contra was that the normies and even some advanced people who use Signal just don’t “get” UX warnings any more: you could have put all the red tabs, cross signs and unlocked padlocks on the screen you wanted, they were still gonna complain openly on the internet and discredit Signal for not actually “securing muh messages”. It’s actually part of the same argument why they don’t let you export your own messages.

Besides, having to use the same engine (tab and all) in the same app for two things with vastly different reaches of security was murder on the dev team. There were things they were not able to keep testing because of clashing against SMS compat. It is one of the reasons why I think the smart thing to have done would have to keep the “original” app as the Signal SMS.

Dropping SMS alas was necessary (and not just for Signal, but for messengers-with-SMS as well) because of the general play Google is doing with SMS → RCS. IMO, Signal held the idiot ball quite strongly by not just picking TextSecure from their old archives, tuning it up and releasing it as an updated, separate “Signal SMS” app.

Don’t you mean a quarter of the footprint? It’s half the size per side.

It costs money to produce food.

The more people you want to feed, the more money it costs.

Food production is not free. Food distribution is not free.

Then it should be a task of the State, as “feeding people” is, quite obviously, a task Too Big to Fail. And, as such, the State can (and should) just automatically print the money needed to reward the work done. Feeding the hungry should not depend on a “budget”. A budget is basically putting a price on human lives.

Meta

Annoying. Evil. Greedy. A machine designed to enhance, promote and reward sociopathy, just as capitalism is in general. Ultimately unneeded.

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Just about the same. A pisshole representing much of the worst of humanity.

and other instances preparing to defederating from them?

Just good praxis. Preventive care, and the simplest measure of such that any respectable instance would take. . Effectively self-defense and should count as that if for some weird reason it came down to legal trials.

undefined> , maybe not as a social media platform, but surely as a public service/news platform it has some merit.

If the distribution of some emergency news and public service news is so important that you have to have it during emergencies, then it’s Too Big To Fail and must not be held by a corporation, but implemented by the government. Every service such as police, firefighters, etc, should have a public RSS or Atom service announcement.

Internet Archive archives now have DRM

Like, what’s even the point of having them, then? Not much of an “Archive”, are they? Didn’t expect IA of all places to get enshittified.

Thanks for the points! I’m gonna check those now that I have free time.

undefined> I think that as the fediverse grows, it might become common/necessary to have a few accounts in order to see everything you want to see.

Exactly. And that’s good, because that’s how the internet is supposed to function in the first place.

(Plus, it helps against the enshittification and all that)

Personally I feel the entire point is it should be done like that. Like it was in the 90s. Every little cats community can be out there and independent from each other; communities, identities and administration can remain separate. For discoverability, rather than make it part of the platform which would eventually induce dark incentives towards the kind of consolidation that happened with Reddit in the first place, well, why not also do it like back in the 90s? There used to be the webdirectories, as well as the webrings (in Yahoo, Geocities, etc) that served as an independent discovery system.