Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

  • MinnesotaGoddam
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    12 hours ago

    I know we’re all saying network effects, but I don’t know what the fuck network effects means.

    Network effects dude. Network effects.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s a simple concept.

      You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

      One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

      The other only has Whatsapp.

      They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

      Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it’s just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

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        5 hours ago

        those flags that ships used to communicate.

        i think those are called semaphore and they’re cool as hell. i have a set of flags around here somewhere

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          1 hour ago

          Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?