• Steve@communick.news
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    1 month ago

    If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
    If you make it the default, they will.

      • Casterial@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        If people thought TikToks invasion of privacy was bad, wait until they realize how bad meta products are

        • bearboiblake@pawb.social
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          1 month ago

          Most people just think whatever the media tells them to think, and the media is owned by the ruling class

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      1 month ago

      just like they forced reels on everyone by pushing it in the algorithm to later say “see! everyone wants reels now, they don’t want photos anymore!”

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    29 days ago

    Yeah, I’m sure that’s the real reason. And all the convenience for spying on users to collect data for targeted advertising is just a side effect.

  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I‘m surprised they even had that. The average Instagram user probably doesn‘t even know what that means.

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    1 month ago

    It’s really interesting that even with occasional usage of the app not once has this setting been mentioned or brought up for me. Why remove it?

  • Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Everyone would use it if that’s just the only way it worked. I don’t need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It’s always on. There’s no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don’t actually want people using it.