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"Centralised messenger Signal has just announced that they are making part of their server software closed source. They claim it is to fight spam, but by using closed source they make it impossible for outsiders to verify the truth. This is worrying.

We really, really need a fully open, decentralised alternative to Signal.

There are several alternatives being developed, please support them:

➡️ @matrix

➡️ @delta

➡️ @briar

➡️ @Jami "

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

For Briar on Linux, there's Anbox, but at the moment you have to use separate accounts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I suggest the fork called molly be made mainstream.

EDIT: typos

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

This whole thread is a brilliant demonstration of the FOSS/privacy activist condition. Anyone who successfully scales an actual private service will be attacked and abandoned so that the activists can show off how uncompromising they are and say "contact me on <software you don't use>" so they can seem aloof and cool on social media.

I was surprised that Matrix made it onto the list in this post. It's already making inroads on the mainstream and the deranged hit pieces began a while ago (none linked in this thread yet). I give it another few years at most before the whinger crowd are treating it with the same disdain as Discord just because it built the features needed to retain XX million users.

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