You seem very frustrated personally for the lack of SMS support on Signal.
I don't agree with your take or arguments, and you seem to keep branching off pejorative comments on their organization and product instead of actually discussing the points. I think the conversation would be more productive if we focus on the same point, i.e.:
* Focusing on what matters most is a good idea, as nobody serious about secure messaging uses SMS
* Your argument: irony-covered "dropping features is not a good product development approach".
* My counter-argument: it **is** a valid approach, why support a feature that was useful in the past, but it is now dying/not aligned with your core value proposition?
* Your other argument: their focus is on social networking, and some disdainful comment that "the competition already did it".
* My argument: how is catching up with well-established user behaviors across other messaging platforms a bad thing?
I remember when I didn't have a smart phone (I don't come from a privileged background, and this was 2009) and I used twitter over SMS. I really wouldn't care if they dropped support for it now, but back then, I would have churned.
> The research found that every $1 in Bitcoin market value generated an average of 35 cents in global climate damages between 2016 and 2021. For comparison, gasoline generated 41 cents, and beef production was responsible for 33 cents in damages.
That doesn't look like an apples to apples comparison... The dollars spent on gasoline have to be at least two or three orders of magnitude above that of Bitcoin, right?
Edit: After checking, it's three orders of magnitude, 10 billion per year in USD spent on barrels [1] vs 0.09 billion in USD fees per year [2], but the article seems it look like comparable threats to our environment.
I don't agree with your take or arguments, and you seem to keep branching off pejorative comments on their organization and product instead of actually discussing the points. I think the conversation would be more productive if we focus on the same point, i.e.:
I remember when I didn't have a smart phone (I don't come from a privileged background, and this was 2009) and I used twitter over SMS. I really wouldn't care if they dropped support for it now, but back then, I would have churned.
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