danhakimi @ danhakimi @kbin.social

Hi all. I'm Dan. You can message me on Matrix [@danhakimi](https://kbin.soc

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ohhhh, I just made a typo in the one I was testing, thanks.

Help me out, I forgot how to format it again because it doesn't make any sense. I'm on kbin, if that makes a difference. I know there's one rule for linking to internal communities, and a totally different rule for linking to external ones, but I can't remember what either of those rules is...

I'd like to see people talk in a wide variety of communities. I've been trying to post to !malefashionadvice, and there are a handful of people upvoting there, but the only other posts are super basic questions once in a blue moon. Most posts don't get commented on, and most comments are empty one liners about how nobody should enjoy X type of clothing, rather than anything positive or engaging. I haven't found another fashion community half as active as that.

There doesn't seem to be a Jewish community here... the television community I've found is kind of active, but not really... The NYC community sees maybe one post per week...

It seems like there are plenty of niches going entirely untouched. I feel like people are less likely to discuss hobbies here unless those hobbies are focused on "nerd culture," software, etc. Most communities are just memes or something. !asklemmy seems to be 30% askreddit-type questions, 30% questions about fediverse, and 40% are like, "hey, how do you fix a broken air conditioner" or, you know... non-discussion questions, non-opinion questions, non-story questions, just "help me with this shit" or stuff you could look up in an encyclopedia.

!foodporn seems to be pretty good...

Telegram is literally pioneering messaging apps.

Oh, is that why they haven't figured out how to encrypt a group chat yet? Or how to sync an encrypted chat? Or how to institute any of their fucking features in an encrypted chat?

They still don't have multi-channel chat groups, do they? And there's still a limit on how big their chat groups can be, unlike Matrix / Discord / Slack, right?

Everything that other apps add, Telegram has added first.

Oh, you're talking about "broadcast channels." No, actually, Twitter added that feature first, it's called Twitter. Telegram Broadcast Channels are just a social network, except it's unmoderated, so crypto scammers can play around there with impunity. Wow, incredible feature!

But oh boy, you have lots of sticker packs!

Oh, and it looks like they added stories after Snapchat did it, and then after Facebook did it... what, ten times? fifteen? Yeah, sure, Telegram invented those.

I am assuming you think they “suck ass”, because you’re upset the E2EE is not enabled by default, and you have to open a private E2EE chat with someone? You know, the same buttons you press to open a non-E2EE chat?

That's one of the bigger issues, I'm guessing you haven't actually tried using one of those chats since you seem to be excited about all of Telegram's "features." Yeah, sorry, this untold disaster against privacy is an insult to its users' intelligence, and the users can't tell.

I didn't say they should back up on their servers. I think they should enable Androi'ds built in feature to save a file to a cloud location so I can auto-save backups to my cloud server of choice.

If you're using Google Messages anyway, it's true that RCS is a half-notch better than SMS. Unfortunately, it doesn't compete with any decent chat service on any front—Not signal, not Whatsapp, not Matrix, not even Telegram, and Telegram sucks ass. It's fully centralized, Google gets all of your metadata (which is not worse than Facebook getting all of your metadata, but it is something that Apple obviously won't agree to), there's only one app that does it...

have they even figured out how to encrypt group chats yet?

The concern is that glitter is smaller and harder to dispose of responsibly. It's likely to end up polluting the ground or the water, as opposed to something like a chair, which, having less surface area, and being disposed of as a whole piece after some decades, is not actually going to bleed that much.

one quick DDG search, first result: https://thegoodglitter.com/

I mean, they could enable automatic cloud backups (and I do mean enable, the solution is built into the system quite neatly and their automatic backups are already well-encrypted so they're just being ridiculous about security theater instead of letting us have a very important feature). And they could stand to make the cross-device experience (much) better.

but mostly, I wish anybody I knew used it. I'm wondering what kind of circle you're in where everybody started using signal.

Really? Are you a web developer? Reporter? The only people I know on Signal are a reporter, who hates using it but needs to for sources, and a friend from undergrad (a tech school) who... probably doesn't use it anymore, I haven't actually been in touch with her.

ooof. monkey's paw, huh?

Yes. They're quite reasonable, especially considering you don't even need an account. https://tosdr.org/en/service/2201

It's a Free Software product. They are owned by 8x8 which charges for its video solutions, but Jitsi is absolutely free and Free. https://www.8x8.com/products/plans-and-pricing

alright, to spell out the joke: nobody uses signal. I wouldn't be able to pay my friends to install signal. there's nobody to chat with.

how did you reach those numbers?

Ah, I figured there wouldn't be too many FaceTime people in the android community, but here we are.

Isn’t that just Signal, though?

Not even close. It's missing WhatsApp's most important feature, which is the user base. I never understand why people don't understand that.

Most people like the “Instagram but green” features

I have no idea what features you're talking about.

I feel weird about using a proprietary matrix client, but it does look pretty and would be at least a marginal improvement over using whatsapp + facebook messenger... probably...

They just got rid of messenger lite, even though the main messenger app is a steaming turd.

Unless it's facetime.

ah, I forgot about Signal since I don't like to video chat alone.