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Leaving WhatsApp - where to go then? An easy and short introduction to federated & distributed messengers for non-tech-savy-people. (thilobuchholz.de)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm leaving WhatsApp tomorrow. Now, the privacy-community on the web features countless discussions, blogs, videos, and comments on whether XMPP or Matrix would be the better protocol, whether people should use Signal or not and why - but I've been missing one thing: A simple and short article to send to my friends where the main differences between centralized, federated, and distributed messaging services are outlined.

So I wrote one! I thought it might be useful for others too, so I'm sharing it here. Please feel free to bookmark it and share it with your family and friends!

Link to the article in the geminispace: gemini://gemlog.blue/users/yellow/1612715438.gmi

Notice anything missing? Anything wrong and needs to be fixed? Happy to hear and integrate some feedback! :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

All good responses, I only mentioned Zulip because Slack was on a graphic.

I think it's a mistake to exclude Session

terrorist groups have probably used other networks even more. Especially if you include Briar and Tox. Session is laggy though ... but very, very secure ... for journalists in totalitarian regimes, for example.

What is used in more in illegal activities: USD or BTC?

DeltaChat doesn't allow voice/video chat ... otherwise it would be almost perfect.