Meta is worried that the expected DMA ruling against Meta’s “pay or consent” model could impact its European revenue, which accounts for almost a quarter of its overall earnings, by forcing the company to allow European users to limit personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram for free.
WhatsApp, Instagram and other shit though.
But what is the alternative to Whatsapp? As Europeans, we would have to set a switchover date, for example 1 January 2026, when we all switch from Wahtsapp to Signal or whatever. That would set an example and you wouldn’t have the problem of 2 people using Whatsapp, 3 using Threema and the rest using something else… Whatsapp is only still so big because almost everyone has it…
I’ve learned people adapt really fast when you take away something they really want to have. In Brazil, WhatsApp blackouts were met with a rapid adoption of telegram. Meta knows for sure they can’t pressure the government through the population here.
I have seen an alternative fediverse version of Instagram posted on Lemmy like a dozen times.
Also, as an aside, it’s really weird that Americans don’t use WhatsApp and like all of Europe seems to. We probably have more telegram users here and even that’s probably less than 1% of society.
Yeah, i wish we would do that…
Signal
SMS. Nein, ernsthaft, mehrere Messenger sind wirklich kein Problem, ist nur eine Gewohnheitssache.
@BigShammy80@feddit.org @Kornblumenratte@feddit.org - this is an English-language community :)
You only need the critical mass. If enough people switch or at least use both the other service can succeed