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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (66 children)

I'm still unclear on why this whole thing is so important that it's worth putting time and money into finding a solution for the color of word bubbles.

Edit: all this time I thought it was just an argument over bubble colors. But no, it's also potato quality videos and pictures ruining every group message with both Apple and Android in the mix.

[–] otl@lemmy.srcbeat.com 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It’s really about interoperability of systems, protocols, services, and clients. Since we’re both using Lemmy I assume we both understand at least a bit about the significance of interoperability.

I think it’s a shame that effort is put in to reverse engineering.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I mean theoretically it would be possible for people to use apps that are already cross platform, like Signal. People just care less than the inconvenience of installing an app on their phone.

[–] otl@lemmy.srcbeat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cross-platform clients, yes, but that's only a (small) part of the way there. For example, Signal is actively hostile to other client implementations just like Apple is with iMessage, unfortunately :(

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

While it's fine to criticize Signal in that instance, I hope no one discards it because of that. Things don't have to be perfect to be better alternatives, and Signal is so far along to be a good alternative that if you would personally, idk, insist on only using Matrix or whatever and refuse to use Signal, you'd probably be contraproductive for the whole privacy and openness thing.

It's fine to prefer something else but I think it's positive to be fine with using Signal too.

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