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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

See, this is a tough one. Privacy concerns are legitimate, but also, when people keep reminding that Meta was a key player in acts of terror and genocide what is often not said is that a lot of it happened over Whatsapp groups and direct messages, as in India and Burkina Faso. Direct messaging apps are also social media.

I don't have a solution for this. It's a mess of an issue and honestly, I don't know that I trust anybody with a strong, aggressive position one way or the other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Direct messaging apps are also social media.

How do you define social media in a way that includes DMs but doesn't include basically all communication?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

One thing that has always felt different about Telegram in particular was the large, public groups. I’ve never used WhatsApp but you can’t really get the same virality on something like Signal or plain SMS/RCS/etc. If you can widely share “rich” media, it kinda fits the bill for social media imo.

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