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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by meldrik@lemmy.wtf to c/europe
 
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[โ€“] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Fucking sad. So many people hooked by Meta.

[โ€“] magnetosphere@fedia.io 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Raise your hand if you wondered why there was a huge island off the coast of France, and then realized it was Iceland.

[โ€“] Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

It's where Plato said Atlantis would be!

Its just not quite three times as big as Africa and Asia combined. And is not in the right place. And is above water.

Another near miss.

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Facebook has most of europe by the balls :/

[โ€“] wieson 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Facebook bought WhatsApp after it was in widespread use. And then it was too inconvenient to switch.

[โ€“] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've gotten some people to switch (partially at least) to signal.

[โ€“] Ooops 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, and the perfect example why we will soon live without any privacy.

People basically beg to be fucked and even voluntarily chose bulldshit apps even when better options are openly available for free.

[โ€“] cron 12 points 1 month ago

The location of Iceland bothers me, but at least for my country, this map is accurate (Austria)

[โ€“] Der_Fossyler 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Your link comes up dead.

[โ€“] 7eter 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting - the path of unencrypted messengers between east and west :D

[โ€“] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Messenger is encrypted now

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure here in Denmark, most people use Facebook Messenger. Annoyingly soโ€ฆ

[โ€“] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yes the post you posted says that messenger is popular in Denmark.

[โ€“] federalreverse 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm @Meldrik@lemmy.wtf ... It appears https://Lemmy.wtf has issues serving images right now.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago

Yea, some images uploaded to Lemmy.wtf seem to suddenly just disappear. Iโ€™m on the Matrix channel, trying to figure out why.

[โ€“] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is all I see:

I mean, I live in Morocco so this makes total sense. Not in Europe, no data available.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry about that. Should be fixed now. There is some issue with the handling of images on lemmy.wtf.

[โ€“] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It is fixed. Thanks, lemmy.wtf mods.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Guernsey is a lot bigger than I remember

[โ€“] samsy 2 points 1 month ago

Lol viber? Really?