• imnotneo
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    241 year ago

    hmm still no Linux desktop client? it’s been like 3 years

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      whatsapp on linux gives me real nutella pizza vibes. Yeah, some might see no problem with it… but others might shudder by the thought alone.

      • png
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        111 year ago

        Its usually not something people want, but in some countries (Germany) WhatsApp is a synonym for texting. If you don’t have it as a student for instance, you’re practically socially ostracizing yourself. I don’t want to use it at all, but you basically have to, and at that point I also want to access it on my school Laptop, which runs Pop!..

        • sab
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          31 year ago

          I’m in a community of people from all over Europe (along with a few people from other continents), and WhatsApp is the platform everyone is using. There’s a couple of people on Signal and a couple on Telegram, but there’s just no way I can stop using WhatsApp without my social and professional life suffering.

          WhatsApp Web does an alright job on desktop, so that doesn’t really bother me. What is worse is that it cannot be used with Linux mobile at all without jumping through a bunch of hoops to emulate android.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        no support for web, linux or basically any other OS beside Windows/Mac

        And mobile devices, which is really the target market anyhow. Also, does “kaokaotalk online” not supply a web version?

      • imnotneo
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        11 year ago

        I’m lazy. I want to answer video and voice calls without switching from what I’m doing while I work.

    • @Zpiritual
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      11 year ago

      Isn’t it just a web app/electron on windows anyway? I’ve run a whatsapp “client” on linux for years without problems.

      • @Zzombiee2361
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        21 year ago

        Nope they have native client on windows and Mac that can make phone/video call

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    91 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video-calling experience on its platform — taking on traditional video conferencing apps, including Microsoft Meet, Google Meet, Zoom, and Apple’s FaceTime.

    The new feature, announced this morning by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg through a Facebook post and on his Instagram channel, will allow you to share your documents, photos, and even your shopping cart with contacts available on video calls.

    This is similar to how screen sharing works on typical video-conferencing platforms like Google Meet and Zoom.

    WhatsApp told TechCrunch that the screen-sharing feature has started rolling out on Android, iOS, and Windows Desktop in a phased manner.

    Screen sharing has been a crucial feature of video-conferencing apps for a while now, including those aimed at consumers.

    In 2021, for example, Apple enhanced its FaceTime service with SharePlay, which enabled iOS users to share their screens natively.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

        • voxel
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          1 year ago

          yeah there’s a tradeoff. it’s either server-encrypted with your “cloud password” or e2e encrypted in which case you lose chat sync.
          like you’re supposed to use non-e2e chats for regular conversations, and encrypted ones for anything even remotely sensitive

          audio/video calls are always encrypted.

          • newIdentity
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            1 year ago

            Or just do it like Matrix or Signal or even WhatsApp which have both E2EE and chat sync

            • voxel
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              yeah they can do sync but it’s rather janky and requires both devices to be on.
              there are some advantages to telegram’s cloud chat system, even though it’s much less secure.

              • newIdentity
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                11 year ago

                They don’t though. Only WhatsApp does. The other ones don’t require both devices to be on.

                Also it’s not janky at all (with the exception of WhatsApp)

    • @Backfire
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      31 year ago

      To be fair, WhatsApp hasn’t had any serious feature development up until the last year or so, so as far as features go, they’re playing catch-up.

    • ElPussyKangaroo
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      -11 year ago

      Not to be a dick, but Telegram (as much as I love it) has had a terrible Video Chat experience. The overall quality is heavy… And it’s buggy.

        • ElPussyKangaroo
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          21 year ago

          That’s… weird… Windows Desktop and Android. The audio quality fluctuates alot.

          Compared to the same hardware on Meet, the quality fluctuates a lot on Telegram.

          To be fair, it’s been over 4 months since I last used it. Let’s see.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    61 year ago

    Facebook really wants everyone’s lunch. First Snapchat & Twitter, now Teams/Zoom

    Nice feature but just seems greedy