Very good and well thought out reply! Thanks so much!

LMAO, I’m probably older than you.

What also tracks is you’re a pedantic asshole that somehow thinks that correcting random posts on a forum, and not the original author because it’s “Not my circus, not my monkey” (but it is yours to correct random internet posts, go figure) somehow makes you ‘better’ than others or others ‘better’ in some way when all it does is show how much of an asshole you are over things that ultimately do not matter and will not in any meaningful way change the world.

This isn’t a fucking spelling competition, it’s not an academic piece of work, it’s not an exam, it’s one fucking minor ‘mistake’ that, no really, doesn’t matter and is just a reference to “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Seriously, find something better to do with your obviously boundless free time, if you have so much of it you’d have the time to do this.

Instead of realising that language is about communication and as long as the original message comes across fine in non professional context then that’s all that matters, you’d rather come into some random thread so you can be a smug asshole from afar.

Now either have something meaningful to say about the actual subject or get out.

Winter actually.

A big thing they could do to convince more of us is to set up a transparency report like Signal has, so we can see any requests for information or legal orders they get, and their replies.

I don’t count that as being better, heh. Being better is things like behaviour not some random spelling someone got ‘wrong’ that ultimately doesn’t matter.

Well, it’s not exactly about privacy. But it does need a lot more time to develop before it is ready for ‘mainstream’ use, right now it’s very niche, they haven’t figured out how to get the same profile on multiple devices, there’s no proper ipad support and because it’s niche only tech people use it and thus I’m not interested in it until the average user can and will use it easily as I like all my friends etc to be on things I use.

Plus it doesn’t have as many audits, as say, signal, so that’s a big hmmm in my book. Yes, it’s not been around as long, so that might not be fair, but it has a lot of things to fix before it’s worth using.

Also, it really needs more ‘fun’ features, like signal has before most average people will use it. I think it also needs to figure out things like calling, especially group, but I cannot remember if that’s still accurate or not.

Oh, also, I remember there was a big concern about funding because they went commercial instead of doing the right thing and starting a foundation or some such.

Yeah, more tech and privacy enthusiasts should really look into things before declaring them secure or private. Even those that market themselves as such. Like, a lot of them hark on about SimpleX without really understanding that it’s not a good choice.

So you just wanted to be a pedant for the sake of it?

Good catch, feel free to tell Soatok as all posts are repliable on fedi.

As usual tech obsessives are completely disconnected from the general population.

Yes, the email I use has that built in, though if I can I don’t use email for an account, like on Lemmy (which is how it should be everywhere in my opinion, just a username and password). All my passwords are different too!

Ah, good reason to always make new usernames for each site/service that is signed up for. 😉

Hmmm, how did they find out?

The Narcissist Scare by Sarah Z — This explains a lot, the term has been wildly misused and thus people don’t really understand what it actually means.

Plus there is a focus on punitive ‘justice’ very much in the systems we live under instead of either trying to understand people and trying to help them either directly or indirectly.

Allegedly, it is a difficult neurodivergence to live with in a healthy, non toxic way. However, I’ve never personally seen that from anyone I know officially diagnosed with it, in fact they are well aware that they have it and are trying to do better, a lot of people are armchair psychologists and love to diagnose with no proof, misattributing it to other things, either trauma or the systems we all live under which causes people to act in terrible ways.

For those who have genuinely been affected by the actions of those who genuinely have it though, I suspect they feel as if they have to see as everybody with it as exactly the same to try to defend themselves. However, in actuallity this likely just makes people worse because not having community or people to point out when you are doing harmful things or getting you help is likely going to make people act out or seek out others who will reinforce their beliefs instead of encouraging them to get help in ways that actually work instead of the vitriolic hating ways most do to them. Though yes, I get that people shouldn’t have to be around those that do them harm but by seeing anyone of any group as all the same it may be doing more harm than good instead of getting to know individuals.

Personally, I think a lot of the systems we live under don’t help with the behaviour of anyone with neurodiverse conditions nor those that need protection from actual toxicity because they are stagnating and do not allow those that need help to get it due to being alienating and often lacking the resources they need to get help.