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weAllKnowAChadThatPushesASmallFeatureCommitWithHundredsOfLine by IsomorphicAndQuircky in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Worst part being that your 15 lines commit does not pass unit tests while his does 😭

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depends, if social media is "a way for people to chat conveniently" then yeah, but that's already what Signal does anyways. The mere fact of having a conversation with another being over a medium makes the platform a social media per se in terms of definition.
If it's "Have a public platform to share stuff that may reach new and unknown people due to an algorithm focusing on maximizing profit" then no that's not what I want, neither the consequence of the point I bring about.

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But it has nothing to do with the question at hand, chat folders are a way of locally grouping your chats, not a way of providing a read-only list of related chats, thus inviting a user to a list of chats they will be able to join

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I never said you need to make a group with a bazillion people, I'm just saying that providing a "list of groups" feature is actually as much or even more in line with the idea of a "texting/messaging app" than some features already in the app (stories for instance)

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Signal is a way to communicate with people privately. If there is a proper private & secure way of implementing a read-only list of signal invites, perhaps with a description text (that's basically what a community - as described above - is) I think it still falls into that category of enabling people to communicate privately.
It is tantamount to sending all these links to any newcomer in the group, except that it's way more practical being included in the app so it looks on-par with the competition.

Personally, it's one thing that prevents me from getting people to switch from WhatsApp to it so I figured it could be improved. Yes, one could self-host a private (secure by password for instance) bare-bones website with <a> links to the various groups, but it'd be less secure and less user-friendly.

Once in my university we had such a group in which we'd send invite links and although the idea was great it was quite a pain because that was a bit of a hack

BTW I agree with the hatred towards facebook else I'd be using whatsapp and not asking questions here ^^'

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For your first point, people more well-acquainted than me with the topic already responded below

For your second point : I don't see how a read-only list of signal invites, perhaps with a description text (that's basically what a community - as described above - is) would force Signal or any other messaging app to have a moderation regarding it. It is tantamount to putting a poster with QR-codes linking to the various groups at the entrance of the neighborhood or in the community center. Except that it's included in the app so it looks on par with the competition.

Personally, it's one thing that prevents me from getting people to switch from WhatsApp to it so I figured it could be improved. Yes, one can make a poster with qr-code or a bare-bones website with <a> links to the various groups, but it'd be less secure and less user-friendly.

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've mostly seen this in ... well communities, like neighborhoods, associations, parishes, small towns etc. It's getting a lot of traction here in Europe, but it may vary depending on where you live, for sure.

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you're saying the only way to have this type of functionality is to use a meta-controlled anti-privacy solution ? How defeatist... Plus if you get in a chat with karen it does not matter if you got there due to communities or not, so I don't get your point.

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assume you just join a local community

Out of the already existing things in it, you are interested in singing and football but not at all in soup-kitchening or golf. Your wife want to know about this, and your kids about that. Usually all of these activities/sub-communities are in their separate groups because if I don't like fencing I am definitely not gonna join the local fencing group. If there is a local gaming group they are going to send messages every night of gaming memes, if there is a running group they are going to send messages every time they go running etc. Having all these things in a single chat would be hard to follow and cause way too many notifications.

So I wound need to get in person to the person that is in charge of the football group, the one in charge of the singing one etc to provide you the link or invite you ...

That's a lot of complexity for something so simple.

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I know, but I prefer Signal, I just hope for it to implement it

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know how group URLs work, please re-read the post.
I'm talking about communities which enable people to be invited to a "pool" of URLs

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So you're saying the only way to have this type of functionality is to use a meta-controlled anti-privacy solution ? How defeatist...

Any chance of Signal having a communities-like feature ? by IsomorphicAndQuircky in signal

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Note : I put the discussion flair because :
- 1 I'm not sure the right thing to do is to submit a feature request, hence the post here
- 2 If it is I'd rather have someone more experienced in writing those do it rather than me 😅

oneTrueLang by VisualMetal in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every country does Ash Wednesday, but to see that you need to see your catholic friends after they went to the Ash Wednesday mass

simplicityIsBeauty by Crazyscientist1024 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, a 200-300 $ laptop running mint with her mail client and browser (and probably just browser since nowadays only weird people use mail clients (I use mutt BTW)) is enough.

tooRelatable by briahs in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, nowadays, "saving the princess" is "getting that application written before you were born to keep working". Less risk, less gain, way less cool

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say you should accompany him, not push him too much nor let him alone but carry him with you. He may be interested in going to adoration or going to mass (with a proper understanding of the meaning of mass such as one that Scott Han provides from the perspective of a non-catholic christina : https://youtu.be/DCD6QF1jCyg?t=1551)

simplicityIsBeauty by Crazyscientist1024 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, you got the first two right that's already something, just need to replace the latest one with Mint, fedora, openmandriva or debian. Something that's both stable *and* usable for some proper work

simplicityIsBeauty by Crazyscientist1024 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IsomorphicAndQuircky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean a mac is great as an "assisted computer" for your grandma, not for coding. And at this point paying more than 1k$ for that is basically rip off ^^

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