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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo


If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

WhatsApp. It's a direct WhatsApp clone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Not really.

I'm a big signal proponent, but it's very barebones. There is a half ass story implementation, but otherwise, it's a pretty lean messaging application with voice and video and that's pretty much it.

Signal doesn't really have a mechanism for following accounts the way you can on telegram and WhatsApp, and while it supports group chats, it's more akin to an old school group text rather than a channel like on telegram or Whatsapp.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I guess I didn't know WhatsApp caught up that much to Telegram, the WhatsApp I knew used to support group chats and voice calls but nothing like channels, supergroups and following users, yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Itโ€™s still like that. Those additional things are instagram.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I got a very different impression from @[email protected] their comment...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am forced to use WhatsApp for work and a few groups. Until last half of 2023 they literally had nothing.

They had no polls, no channels, communities, not even reactions... more barebones than signal to be honest. I was surprised when I switched mostly to signal. Now they have passed signal in terms of "features" again, but indeed no stories like signal.

I don't know a single person who follows something on whatsapp. That is just not what it does well at all.

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