True

Exactly that, yeah

Sorry, I still don’t understand morse code. Vibes not strong enough.

How am I to correctly interpret morse code with that?

Uh, how is my friend to correctly interpret morse code with that?

Also, what’s up with toys that vibrate with such a high frequency but low amplitude that you can barely feel anything?

Uh, asking for a friend, of course.

Oh God, what did Macron do this time

Then we’re two fundamentally different types of talkers, huh

The desire to share whatever new fascinating thing you read about is super strong, isn’t it

I am neither of these, and yet being passionate about a certain topic will make me be this person

Just don’t mention any of my interests at breakfast, and you’re good

Probably some bird poop, too

I’m pretty sure I gobbled up a spider and/or a small stink bug while eating berries the other day

Oh well

Yeah, true. And concerning your name and phone number, they probably already have that too, one way or another.

Fair enough. Won’t work with Signal though, they’ve stated that they will never open up

So what needs do you have outside of a different look? Privacy doesn’t seem to be one of them, and the two apps are very similar otherwise.

Since WhatsApp is proprietary, we don’t know if the users are the only ones who can decrypt their messages. I’ll always have to assume Meta can read everything, which is the most sensible data they could possibly collect.

So that alone should be reason enough to avoid it.

Oh, it’s both. They both act like insufferable little kids with that

Both Apple and Google need to get their shit together on this one, put their pride aside and agree on a standard.

Whatever way it works, I could see people giving up certain services if they allow interoperability with the gatekeepers, because why use these alternatives then.

But then again, the services that take privacy seriously won’t do it in the first place, so it should be a non-issue.

Interoperability is a weird one though. Imagine WhatsApp can connect to Signal, and people use this feature. What would then be the point of using Signal, if WhatsApp gets the data after all?

(Signal has already announced not wanting to support this, I just used it as an example)

It has its flaws, like any other system. But it is a lot more secure ootb than most peoples’ Windows installation, for example.

Is that a low bar to clear? Yeah, I guess. But it clears it by quite a margin.