Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
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Consume the ads like a good corpo-drone. Lobby the unicode consortium to have your emoji added/removed because you have no control over your computer; you have no property. Drone does what the computer says to do. Consume ads. Beep bop.
You got advertising in my data scraping app!
As if all competitions weren’t immoral by nature
Why is there a lime green baseball?
It’s a softie for the ladies
Kind of weird how the ladies ball is bigger. We have smaller hands. Ours should be smaller.
easier to hit cause clearly women have to be bad at sports
Also, what is that… what appears to be a baseball, but green with red stitching?
How is that shit different from Discord shitty server exclusive emojis. This crap is so… exhausting
I could put those balls in my ass abd I still wouldn’t get a pallbearer outta my marriage. Did I spell that right. Hope I did. Wouldn’t want to be wrong on yhr intenert
Fully convinced this is an LLM told to misspell in order to look more human and it just can’t without losing it.
Man, I bet you can’t tell me what tf to do boy. Nor can I tell you to investigate. No one fucking investigates. I do one stretch of comments at a time and most people are so chuckle happy they don’t even know God’s a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, let alone I teach this in my educational (f)art project, but retard over here is “fully convinced,” so why don’t I mention how much I love feet and leave it at that.
FIFA ball does not look happy
If you see it as pointing to the right it looks pretty content, actually.
Razer logo
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
That’s cooled it’s named after the Telstar satellite. There’s a high school in Maine that’s also named after the satellite.
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That said volleyball to me, but maybe there’s a size difference?
Anyways the true sport of champions is sepak tekraw. Give me the damn sepak tekraw ball, dude
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
It’s messaggio!
Everyone, messaggio has come to see us!
It’s about a hunnert billionaires banding together…c’mon we can take 'em all down! Let’s Robin Hood all those motherfuckers!
All right, you go first.
Second. Someone did the United Healthcare guy already.
Dammmmn, that’s an ugly ball. Let’s call it the Curseball Games insted.
(Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one’s a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can’t say the same for most of the recent ones, it’s all a blur to me!)
OH NO!
Anyway, who cares?
If this is the shit you care about you need to spend less time on your phone
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
Because it’s unfair to assume that everyone has the necessary education or awareness of what the internet is and what online privacy means that we take for granted.
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don’t know a single person on whatsapp
Yeah they’re all on Facebook Messenger which sucks. I’ve managed to switch a few in my surroundings to Signal but I still need to keep Messenger for holdouts.
Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.
It’s very big in western Europe. Here in the Netherlands everybody is on WhatsApp pretty much since it’s creation
In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.
I remember starting to use it because texting was pretty expensive and limited at the time. Whatsapp was free (group) texting when on WiFi and still cheaper when on cellular. If texting wasn’t so expensive at the time I really don’t think whatsapp would’ve caught on like it did. Now people are just used to it so that’s probably why it’s still big
I lived the switch in second person. My sister kept running out of SMSs to text her boyfriend, and our elder sister told her about Whatsapp and how she could have basically infinite text messages
Exactly. And, combined with the shared amount of texts/minutes (which IIRC for me was something like 100), actually calling people and wanting to text your friends you’d run out of texts very quick. WhatsApp was a godsend at the time.
I think the whole europe except some countries
never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.
Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.
Poland , and everybody around me is on WhatsApp, only a few people have Telegram. Searched a bit of saved phone numbers, none had Signal tied to them
So what? Don’t support fascism.
The only people that believe I’m worth contacting have already switched to Signal and the ones that refused to switch lost contact with me. Their loss I guess.
changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Sounds great - if I wasn’t already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁
Same thing with Twitter and mastodon I guess.
Couldn’t be me… but some people don’t care that Meta can read their messages. Or they still don’t know but I doubt it.
Mark Zuckerberg has a term for these people…
“dumbfucks”
-Markie Zuc
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I agree, but the other people all use it 🫠
You genuinely don’t know? 😬
I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.
I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.
because it’s the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries
So?
sometimes you want to sent text messages to normal people
I know we’re all saying network effects, but I don’t know what the fuck network effects means.
Network effects dude. Network effects.
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.
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
Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?
Because in my country historically the telecom companies are charging 0.30€ per SMS (text) and 2€ per MMS (text with photo).
So WhatsApp when they launched with their “1€/lifetime” offer on the iPhone 3GS they were the right app at the right time and became the de facto replacement for any kind of messaging. It’s insane how basically overnight they replaced msn messenger and Skype because it was so convenient (Microsoft never did a smartphone client for msn messenger, only unofficial ones. It was available on dumbphones but it used SMS from the plan to send/receive, nobody used it because you needed to be a millionaire to afford it)
SMS now in my country is only for receiving OTP codes, for the rest is WhatsApp, because still in 2026 the telecoms are still charging 2€ for each MMS sent and nobody wants to risk huge bills. This includes iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn’t notice, it costs dozens of euro
Well Signal would be pretty much the same as WhatsApp, it sends over internet not mms or sms
The problem is that everyone assumes you have WhatsApp.
You take clothes to the laundry? The “your order is done” notification is sent via WhatsApp
Any kind of work stuff is also on WhatsApp
You order food delivery? WhatsApp
Amazon started to send delivery notifications via WhatsApp instead of email/sms
And luckily meta is charging businesses 5 cents for messages via API or otherwise even otp codes would be via whatsapp
At least here, being reachable only on signal means being a digital exile
Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages ‘ride’ on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are ‘free’ from the infrastructure point of view.
Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you’ll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.
In Italy we don’t have the concept of “lobbying representatives”. It’s a US thing.
https://data.ipu.org/parliament/IT/IT-LC01/basic/contact-details/
There. 5 seconds to figure out how to email your parliament. That’s not an exaggeration.
edit: for good measure here’s your eu commission representative contact info too. https://italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/chi-siamo/commissione-europea-rappresentanza-italia_it
Lobbying doesnt always have to include €€€.
It could mean as mich as writing an email to mKe your standpoint known.
iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn’t notice, it costs dozens of euro
There’s a setting in iOS to disable that from happening btw
I don’t get to choose what app my European friends use
signal is extremely popular across europe
i’ll get right on telling them that. again.
But you get to choose what app you use. And if they continue to support fascism you have to decide if you want those kind of friends.
Let me just cut contact with most my friends, my parents and grandparents. Or have to call them. But still lose our group chats. That’ll surely improve my life.
We actually held a poll in our friend group chat to switch to Signal, but the result was that everyone who was not very privacy concious didn’t want to move. Because everything else is still on Whatsapp.
It isn’t about the privacy though. It is about the direct funding of meta. You are supporting meta which means, you support AI, data centers, environmental degradation, political manipulation, and billionaires.
I can’t do it. Whatsapp is a non starter. Someone has to take a stand.
enjoy texting yourself dude
random european “i use whatsapp because it’s kind of the default app for a lot of things in my country”
you “fascist”
you see why i might not take you seriously?
Don’t care. Using meta is directly supporting and funding environmental degradation, AI data centers, misinformation, and yes facism.
Can you see why I am tired of being delicate and senstive about it?
what you’re being is hysterical
No, those are simply facts. So you support that then?
Edit: this is why
All these free services somehow add up to 60 billion in profit every year. And they are expanding, they plan to spend 125-135 billion in AI data centers. They are going to build data centers that will use hundreds of gigawatts in over 10 locations. The power used by each is in the scale of the same as powering all of San Francisco with some of these as 2 to 6 times as much as San Fransisco to put it into perspective.
They are going to use about 1,000 to 2000 acres each, use 1 to 3 million gallons of water a day (one site is asking for a permit to use 23 million gallons a day).
All because of people are using “free” apps.
