you realize that "the masses" don't give a shit, right? Everyone's grandparents are on facebook FOR the racist rightwing AI slop. I mean, unfortunately. I'd like to be wrong.
I don’t think you’d need the masses. They’ll be signing up one family group at a time. Tech savvy users will convince their parents to join for pics of the grandchildren - who’s gonna say no?
> Tech savvy users will convince their parents to join for pics of the grandchildren - who’s gonna say no?
Eh I dunno. At the moment we are using a WhatsApp group chat. It works reliably and everyone is happy.
If I were to move our families to a different app I’m on the hook for any and all usability difficulties, instabilities, network connectivity issues etc etc. Even when the issue is their own internet, they are going to think that the app I made them switch to is the problem.
I have enough things to deal with already. I’ll stick with WhatsApp for the foreseeable future unless Meta does something sufficiently annoying or bad to really make me leave it. I already left Facebook many years ago and deleted the account completely I had there. I kept my Instagram but the last couple of years I’ve been less and less and less active there. I don’t even have the instagram app installed on my newest second hand phone. So I only check it once a week or so, from the previous phone.
FWIW, narrow column widths with relatively fewer words per line provably improve readability.
Which this site needs because its marketing is Claude slop and is therefore operating under a readability penalty (not least because of typical AI small font, webkit-smoothing: antialiased, lowered contrast text.
New private messages are protected by end-to-end encryption (E2EE), but the ‘photo sharing’ in the name, isn’t. And A/SIDE stores the feed, so they can read it. The App Store label "User Content Linked to You" refers specifically to the feed, so there is no contradiction here. So the feature they named the product after is the one that isn't private.
They promise all the right things, so it seems nice short-term. Long-term, however, the problem is: As long as you're not self-hosting, it's not really private. Police and other agencies will come knocking, grab all the data they want and abuse it with impunity. And if the project doesn't die first, it will be sold one day and then all bets are off. Your pics and your data will be up for grabs and you get ads, whether you pay a subscription or not. And then there's security. Self-hosting is risky but we know nothing about the security posture of this project. How long until your pics are stolen to be abused with criminal intent?
Profit motives make sure there's no privacy and holes in security take care of the rest. You can trust nothing and no-one any more.
I really believe that all new social apps like these should be built on AT Proto so that users have one account across apps, control over their data, and in this case, be able to use their photos in other apps (and not just via mobile OS media frameworks).
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 26.3 ms ] threadAnd all the left wing grandparents are on Facebook to perv on the trans kids.
Get a grip fella.
Eh I dunno. At the moment we are using a WhatsApp group chat. It works reliably and everyone is happy.
If I were to move our families to a different app I’m on the hook for any and all usability difficulties, instabilities, network connectivity issues etc etc. Even when the issue is their own internet, they are going to think that the app I made them switch to is the problem.
I have enough things to deal with already. I’ll stick with WhatsApp for the foreseeable future unless Meta does something sufficiently annoying or bad to really make me leave it. I already left Facebook many years ago and deleted the account completely I had there. I kept my Instagram but the last couple of years I’ve been less and less and less active there. I don’t even have the instagram app installed on my newest second hand phone. So I only check it once a week or so, from the previous phone.
Which this site needs because its marketing is Claude slop and is therefore operating under a readability penalty (not least because of typical AI small font, webkit-smoothing: antialiased, lowered contrast text.
Ugh.
https://lab1908.com/
[1] https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside
[2] https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside/blob/main/mobile/lib/...
[3] https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside/blob/fce968549504af50...
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I’m not paying a dime for something that reads like slop. I’m assuming the engineering is to the same standards.
https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside/commits/main/
- 8:14am - 8:15am - 8:36am - 8:37am
Not a red flag in and of itself, but considering the scope of each commit, my money is on _heavy_ vibe coding.
Profit motives make sure there's no privacy and holes in security take care of the rest. You can trust nothing and no-one any more.
This is mental you mean you keep hold of my photos and messages and I can only see them if I pay a subscription?
Privacy 101. This is the best private photo sharing app on the market. (wink wink)