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Capitalism destroys the best.


Some of Twitter's best content creators have given up on it. That combined with blue tick prioritisation and lack of moderation has seen it turn into a cesspit. I don't see why that doesn't happen on Reddit. Sure the people who go to discuss player trades in international sport and doom scroll dank memes will stick around, but a lot of the quality content could evaporate.


How many people have stuck to Mastodon?


Care to give an example of something of yours that was censored? I've been on Reddit for almost a decade and only seen nasty ad hominin attacks and hateful speech censored. Seen plenty of right wing misinformation be downvoted into oblivion, but never censored.


I was banned from a wrestling subreddit because I corrected someone who didn't understand how marginal tax brackets work. Not ad hominem and IMO I wasn't hateful about it, although I might've said something about how it's frustrating that some people spread FUD about how you're better off making $90,000 than $90,001 because that'll push you into the next tax bracket (there are a few edge cases where that'll hurt you financially, but there's pretty rare and the post I was replying to was solely about income tax IIRC)


That’s without use. Talk time is a little over 3Hrs. I was interested until I read that.


Interesting premise. Pity I can't read the article.


Maybe the link was updated? It now points to arxiv, from where you can download the paper (or does arxiv implement some geoblocking?).


yep, was just abstract earlier


"I don’t think my app is deceiving Google Play Store". I feel like there's more to this story.


If Google had provided details of what the violation was, he might be able to tell us about that part. One of the big problems is that they don't.


I wonder if the GDPR covers this under the right of explanation (if it happens to someone in the EU), or was the decision made against a non-human app who has no rights to violate?


That strikes me more as the "100% literally correct" wording common of technical people, rather than the "just about honest enough that it's not fraudulent" wording that you seem to be suggesting. I think his app is genuinely not deceptive.


I use it for three different storefronts. Maybe I'm an exception, but I've never had an issue with it.


Why is Telegram getting so much better traction over open source alternatives such as Wire?


Because it works better.

I tried Wire first, I really wanted to like it. It lost messages. It got it's crypto state horribly confused and couldn't read messages from one of my contacts. It maxes out at some annoyingly low number of "devices" - which includes things like different browsers, different OSes, private browsing windows opened on someone elses computer, etc. And it generally felt like a poorly built UI.


It really can’t be understated how important good UI+UX are when it comes to driving adoption of an IM app. Security/privacy is great but most people aren’t willing to use an app that’s heavy or has rough edges or is frustrating in any way.

Think of it this way: not everybody can wrap their heads around computer security and privacy on the internet, but almost everyone can tell when an app isn’t pleasant to use or has gaping holes in its feature set.

In short, if any E2EE messenger is going to come to dominate IM, its developers are going to invest just as much time and effort into its UI + UX as they do its encryption — you can’t ignore the former and wonder why the masses aren’t interested.


> Because it works better.

It's not just "working better", the experience is throughout downright stellar compared to anything else, on every aspect I can think of.


I too tried Wire and was really hoping it'd be good.

It was just OK instead. I haven't seen lost messages, but I've seen them taking several minutes to go through with both clients online and on the same LAN. The UI was not quite there yet too. Routine basic operations required extra taps, it felt less snappy and responsive than you'd expect it to be. So, yeah, it can be used in a pinch, but it's not yet ready as a drop-in replacement for Telegram.


It does not even have login and password so you cannot log in without using a phone. I don't understand how is that better than Skype. Skype doesn't require you to have a phone number.


Oddly if you make your account not via a phone - then it does have a login and password. Which is just plain confusing.


Wire worked well for me until an update broke text and ping notification sounds. They know about it but it's now at least 8 months later and no fix.

I moved friends+family to Signal after a month.


Wire has a very complicated UI. My mum can't use it and most of my friends don't really understand it either. Telegram copied WhatsApp which in turn copied SMS which is very simple and easy to understand.


Because its UI is amazing and its features neverending.


Telegram's clients are also open-source.


Yeah I'm still using Viber. Works great, including desktop client. Phone call quality is perfect.


The designer suggests it was done for aesthetic reasons. More importantly it held my interest a lot longer than a typical map might have, and thus I now know more about Ancient Roman roads!


This is a bit of a straw man technique. You've framed the argument to suit your counterpoint.


A straw man would be more something like "since no one has ever seen how badly immortal societies have gone, no one can say they're bad."


From Wikipedia: "A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent."

I'm probably what you would describe as 'pro-death'. But I would never have made any of the arguments you listed.

I could just as easily frame your positions to suit my argument.

For example; 'More people make more progress faster.' (India has not made as large a contribution to modern technology as the USA)


> For example; 'More people make more progress faster.' (India has not made as large a contribution to modern technology as the USA)

Only if you take the statement as some immutable law and not the intended meaning as a description of a general trend.


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