Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
I mean, people understand mails alright, which is fairly similar to the fediverde. They get very enthousiastic about AI and don’t know anything about how it works.
But to be fair Mail is pretty centralized too nowadays for most people @gmail and @outlook. Of course there are others but my point is that there a a hand full of providers up to a point that it’s almost unfeasible to maintain and run you own mailserver because there is a high chance that those large providers will flag your mail as spam because it’s rare to see a “wild” mailserver.
I mean, people understand mails alright, which is fairly similar to the fediverde. They get very enthousiastic about AI and don’t know anything about how it works.
But to be fair Mail is pretty centralized too nowadays for most people @gmail and @outlook. Of course there are others but my point is that there a a hand full of providers up to a point that it’s almost unfeasible to maintain and run you own mailserver because there is a high chance that those large providers will flag your mail as spam because it’s rare to see a “wild” mailserver.
It’s because they think AI will make them rich somehow and Signal is just a “boring” chat app.
Nothing like a mall, and your examples don’t affect usability.