Posts by _calmdowndear@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AybcwBKqvvGj3vjJmC by _calmdowndear@mastodon.social
       2025-09-25T15:20:03Z
       
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       @neil > Does everything really need to be an Internet-accessible, third party service?Yes, because when you're the nursery that buys a service such as this, presumably it reduces your own exposure?Yes, this provider got hacked. But how quickly do you think the same thing would have happened if the nursery were running their own system to provide the same functionality?
       
 (DIR) Post #AybsteUveLdtuFG652 by _calmdowndear@mastodon.social
       2025-09-26T20:59:15Z
       
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       @cy @neil no, it's a nursery chain with multiple branches? I didn't word my initial statement well, but I was referring to the whole chain.So in the absence of anyone who knows better, since tech is not the primary skill of educational staff, I personally feel like this would have happened even quicker if this wasn't outsourced. Because it would have almost certainly been shared across those branches _somehow_.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzdHHv2yVUvpAfuv1E by _calmdowndear@mastodon.social
       2025-10-27T11:00:38Z
       
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       @troed @Mer__edith I might be missing your point but there does need to be A choice that doesn't require self-hosting; because I promise you my parents are not about to learn to run a Signal-like service for themselves, and I don't want to have to do it for them.Otherwise services like WhatsApp exist, and they just work, so they'll just use that. Which means I have to use it too. The value of a messaging app is (IMO) ENTIRELY derived from who you know on it so it has to be easy to adopt.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzdQKEYfpoarqovFuS by _calmdowndear@mastodon.social
       2025-10-27T11:13:13Z
       
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       @Adam absolutely they have email.But if email was able to completely replace all messaging apps then why are there still so many messaging apps? It's almost as if the use case and user experience of email are not the same or something.In my case, I'm an iPhone user with IMAP email so email is not instant, which is a worse experience than a messaging service like Signal/WhatsApp.