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by hayst4ck 1326 days ago
> keeping a friends list

This was the early genius of facebook and why the WhatsApp purchase was (in retrospect) genius. Facebook wanted to replace your phones contact list. They wanted to be the authoritative list of your friends.

After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade. The video is too.

I am relatively happy with signal, but yeah, not as good in terms of usability.

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>After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade.

Yeah, that doesn't work for me at all, because I don't actually have anyone's phone number, outside of a couple of family members. Who uses phones (voice calling) any more? Almost everyone I know now uses LINE.