Websites do this to get around the GDPR and other privacy regulations because they can’t use trackers.

I can go through the trouble and effort of switching costs and trying (probably unsuccessfully) to get everyone I know to use whatever niche solution because some bellicose rando on the internet tried to browbeat me into it…

Or I can *not* do that, and tell said bellicose rando to fuck off.

This is what I get for engaging with someone whose Mastodon handle is a long string of gibberish. They also talk a long string of gibberish.

>> i'm sure the people you know are not tech savy enough to know the differences or actually read source code.

Yeah and that accounts for:

1) almost everyone I want to keep in touch with

2) most people in the whole world actually

Those people are already using or can easily adopt Signal and not those other things you’re talking about which I never heard of before today.

You don’t need a phone number to use Signal now either, and unlike your thing, Signal is something my friends and family have and actually use.

So here you are saying that this app that my parents and neighbors actually use is bad compared to some other things I have never heard of before, one of which won’t have an app until next year, and which aren’t used by any people I know?

(*fart noise*)

Yeah Columbia is the poster child for this. Biggest landlord in Manhattan, and acts like a shitty landlord in every way.