Tiktok cements it’s #1 status
- Helix 🧬 ( @Helix@feddit.de ) 25•2 years ago
Holy shit, three of the top five downloaded apps are within the Facebook ecosystem (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram).
And further down you have Messenger and WhatsApp Business, also from Facebook (I refuse to call them Meta).
That’s really awful.
- CritiGalDesist∞ ( @Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml ) 5•2 years ago
Always has been
- Tucumano88 ( @Tucumano88@lemmy.ml ) 19•2 years ago
How fucked we are
- Helix 🧬 ( @Helix@feddit.de ) 11•2 years ago
SHEIN on #19 is one of the worst apps for the planet due to slave labor and cheap clothes which are meant to be trashed instead of washed.
- TheAnonymouseJoker ( @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
Shein is a hell lot better than fashion designer brand scams like Zara or Gucci or CK or Victoria’s Secret. You also need to substantiate on the slave labour part and how they cannot be washed, because I have seen plenty clothes purchased from there and they are washed regularly.
- Projjal ( @projjalm@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 years ago
I would really like if Telegram goes 100% FOSS
Their client software is open source and also on F-Droid and Flathub.
- Projjal ( @projjalm@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 years ago
Server-side is not FOSS.
Even if it was open source, how would we know they were really running what they shared?
- Projjal ( @projjalm@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
That’s the problem with every open source application or software, actually.
- stopit ( @stopit@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years ago
Flathub isn’t open source though.
isn’t it? I thought that was the whole point of “snaps bad, flatpak good” thing.
- stopit ( @stopit@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
When I install flathub repository on Fedora, I’m warned that it is non-free. There is a Fedora flatpak repository, but it doesn’t have as many packages.
- rysiek ( @rysiek@szmer.info ) 8•2 years ago
🤦♀️
- benagain ( @benagain@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years ago
I logged into telegram today and found that all my data had been deleted because I hadn’t used it in 6 months. Like I get why that feature might be desirable in some circumstances but for me, I’m not using end-to-end encryption because I’m sharing state secrets that need to self destruct upon opening - I just don’t want the middlemen.
I’ve been looking into alternatives like Matrix/Element, XMPP etc - it sounds like Element might be easier to get non-techy friends to adopt but it, from my understanding, has a fairly power hungry mobile app.
- CritiGalDesist∞ ( @Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml ) 4•2 years ago
You can set the self destruct option to 1 year in Telegram. Matrix or Signal isn’t as safe as people think they are. One has history of having ties to Mossad and other with CIA. Signal requires phone number and both have huge privacy issues with meta data. XMPP and Session seems better option.
Sources :
Why not Signal? And the Five Eyes
Matrix and Israeli Intelligence Amdocs - Helix 🧬 ( @Helix@feddit.de ) 3•2 years ago
FluffyChat is a less power hungry alternative to Element. The reason these use so much battery is that they constantly check for new messages and don’t do it over the privacy infringing Google cloud messaging services, also known as Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), if it’s Android. These are integrated into the system and work a bit more efficiently.
- Ghast ( @Ghast@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years ago
Conversations is pretty user-friendly (XMPP front-end). Just sign up, then log in, like email. End-to-end encryption with groups is still as janky as a Windows XP server, but if you don’t need that, then it’s fine.
- jackalope ( @jackalope@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years ago
The more direct competition to telegram is signal imo. It has a limit of 1k users versus the like 30k in telegram but otherwise pretty feature parity.
I always thought that people that used short video sharing apps went Vine->Dubsmash->Tiktok. Instagram, ofc, being a given, since Facebook is backing it.
- shufflerofrocks ( @shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
For good reason. Out of all the messenger apps I’ve tried - open source, decentralised, or stuff like whatsapp - Telegram is THE best one imo. Fast as hell, great UI/UX, lots of customisation, nice features, and good bot support.
I know some people dislike Telegram here, but among centralised apps their philosophy and track record is pretty decent imo