Other people: Man, Facebook and Twitter are getting bad.
Me: The federated web is great, you should try it!
> No one cares
Me: Come on, the apps are getting way better, they don't spy on you, and there are even mobile apps now that work with this stuff!
> Maybe two people care
Other people: Oh hey, let's all use Sarahah and Ello!
> Everyone scrambles for the non-federated things that will only be popular for two weeks.
Me: 😭
@deadsuperhero ROFL. We've been, apparently, shouting into the void about federation for years too.
And about Signal as well. No one wants to know.
While we're on that hobby horse, now that Signal have got a good desktop interface, we've given all our pc's, linux and windows, their own phone numbers (see ippi.com for free international prefix numbers) and use Signal for secure file transfer between them, and the phones. No public cloud needed and no fiddling with secure shell to copy certificates and ridiculously long cryptically random passwords.
@sophieactual @deadsuperhero
Signal is pretty good :D
... I have no faith in getting any of my friends to use it to a serious capacity :<