• SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

          You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

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            1 day ago

            I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.

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      1 day ago

      You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

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        23 hours ago

        First time I heard of Ferdium. How’s your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?

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          15 hours ago

          I’ve never used beeper, but I’ve been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:

          • WhatsApp
          • Hangouts
          • Discord
          • Element (Matrix)
          • Nextcloud Chat
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        • Samespot@lemmy.world
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          21 hours ago

          I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.

          If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy