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I've wasted too many hours on Shatter Pixel Dungeon.

You can get the source for OG Pixel Dungeon off GitHub, but there's a maintened version on the F-Droid store (Shatter Pixel Dungeon). There's some other free versions floating around too, not sure if they're on the F-Droid store too, but I know they're on the play store.

This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered "prototype" weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

I hope they look to the failure of Robinhood and wish things went that well for them.

You're right, none need to go.....

....but most people are too tech illiterate to even know there's an option outside windows. Hell, I dated a girl who though windows was the operating system on apple devices (she used the term windows and operating system interchangeably)

This is a beautiful block of information and I super appreciate you for having drafted it.

Yeah, that'd be the principle.

I'm really not sure how this is all gonna pan out, but I know you're gonna need to offer me something really good to abandon "real" Signal. Not sure if that's how the rest of the community feels, but I know that's NOT the way "normal people" feel. If my sentiment is widely shared, maybe it does have hope in the end.

I literally got one two weeks ago and had the exact same reaction.

Glad I'm not the only one.

I'm forgetting the term everyone was throwing around when (Facebook's) Threads was supposedly going to federate. But the gist of it was that this is an old Big Tech move: small community is created and thrives, big company integrates into the ecosystem, then a couple of years later the big tech company controls that that whole ecosystem.

If Facebook were to completely integrate, I worry they would begin to bring in additional features (maybe like blue chat bubbles for FB users, or bringing back SMS in the app; some feature that you'd only be getting on the FB version of the ecosystem) and use that to begin to strong arm the ecosystem under their control.

There's probably a Slippery Slope Fallacy in there, but my good will towards Big Tech is minimal after the last decade or so.

I suppose the part I seem to be missing: what's to stop Facebook from setting up a "Signal Server" that then hosts those users on Whatsapp/Messenger?

From there, what happens if Facebook then attempt to integrate those servers into the existing Signal network?

I'm really not sure how information is shared between servers on Signal and am curious if there's not something at a purely technical level to stop that from happening. I'd imagine there's some keys that need to be passed around for handling en/decryption which I think is what you're alluding to, but I want to be clear that that's what you mean.

Oh thank God. I started to read that head line and thought the marvelous bastard died on us.

Right, but with Signal being an open source project, it seems that anyone could (pending license-ability) build an app to interact with the main Signal network. It's my understanding there's a few apps on F-Droid that let you do that already.

Thus, Facebook should be able to (at least in theory) build compatibility for the Signal network into their existing messengers.

Is there any part of that I'm missing?

Sounds like ~~facebook~~ Meta isn't seriously considering interoperation with the existing Signal network, which is a weight off my chest.