There really needs to be an organized effort from sellers and buyers to identify a solid alternative, which is hard. And post listing about moving off to that platform. A lot of existing ones have their own downsides, and there are just not enough people on them consistently and actively

Outside of North America, most other countries’ use WhatsApp as a choice for personal and business uses is WhatsApp. Rest are mostly dominated by Facebook messenger. Excluding China which has WeChat domestically.

How Meta was ever allowed to buy WhatsApp without triggering anti-trust laws is beyond me.

Some numbers

Many of my European and South American friends are having a hard time because that’s where all their families and friends back home are, and it’s hard to get them to use something new, especially the older folks.

I would like to learn about this a bit more, I keep hearing it in conversations here and there. Do you have links around studies/data on this?

My Neighbors the Yamadas

It’s cute, hilarious, and uplifting.

Deliberately used as the “enemy” by the fascist state as scapegoat and distraction. Queer people were also targeted by Nazis.

So like, a sample of the general population?

Get yourself a nice Panasonic one. $150-ish I have one that’s over 10 years old