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WhatsApp also feels... tonally weird to use at a serious company, like in the same way it would feel weird to be using snapchat for team meetings.

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The UK conservative government ran a lot of meetings on whatsapp because they believed it was secure and unarchived, i.e. could escape the normal retention requirements. Of course what happened is that once the chat got large enough and the government fractious enough, people started leaking messages by screenshot.

When trying to avoid subpoenas of data on the device itself, it's important to frequently "lose" the phone with the messages on.

WhatsApp is already the de facto communication channel in a lot of countries.

In Brazil even subpoenas can be sent via WhatsApp.

Yeah it's the de facto communication method for personal communication. I have never worked at a company where people use WhatsApp to communicate. It's always Slack or Teams or Mattermost.

Heh. I have a friend here in the US. His father passed away in his home country. No will. The whole family needed to show up in court for probate, but he could not travel at that time.

The court: "No problem, just join the session on video using WhatsApp"

Really?

Remote court sessions are usually on Google Meet or Zoom

It sounds like the court they are referring to is in the "home country". The friend whose father passed is in the US but the "home country" is where the father passed.

i feel the same way about so many government departments switching to X as a primary public communications platform instead of... you know, the open web (with distribution to downstream closed platforms), as they always have. it just reeks of unseriousness.

Right? If you use snap chat for meetings emojis, "dude", "bro", "like then he said, and i was like..." etc would be the communication denominator. It'd be fun, silly, and stupid

Totally agree. Now let me go play with this model I got off of Hugging Face

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