The rest of the article (not translated) is an interview with Cathcart.
I guess the hopes of a mass migration to another app are not good. On the other side, Brazil’s policies will have a great influence in the future development of whatsapp.
It’s an extreme monopoly here in Germany, too. But the EU will force them to be interoperable with other messengers soon, which will hopefully break that monopoly.
I’m interested to see how that’s implemented. I remember interacting with Facebook via email a long time ago.
I still wonder what’s so different with my circle that so many of them use signal. I mean sure, none use only signal and all also have WA, but almost everyone I know, which is people from Flensburg (border to Denmark) to RLP (center-south), aged late 20 to 70+, use signal. Less than 10% don’t.
as a brazilian, yes it’s true, and it’s frustrating sometimes, fuck meta
I would have that that was India…
A lot of random govt tasks are literally done via WhatsApp…
Yeah, and it sucks because of that. The amount of misinformation, propaganda and fake news that has been circulated through Whatsapp on the previous 4 years was astounding and almost ruined the country permanently.
WhatsApp is the app for pretty much everywhere BUT United States.
We really are social creatures. Went big on Orkut, Facebook, WhatsApp, and of course the current trends are YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. I think the only one that didn’t really take off that much (relatively speaking) was Snapchat.
Even finance apps had way too much social features, looking at you PicPay with the worst timeline feature ever: see people’s payments to each other lmao
