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[โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They're using Signal though, not Telegram.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    opensource and privacy focused :3

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Signal is opensource in the same way TiVo was GPL compliant.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey thanks for the comment. Might you explain a little bit more? I'm just curious to learn more

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do you know the term TiVoization? Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

    Signal is opensource, but you can't use your fork in the official server. You can use it on your forked server, but then you can't communicate with anyone that's not on your server. So being opensource is just a marketing tool. There's also no way of knowing if the binaries distributed were produced with the source code they published. There's no advantage whatsoever to be opensource for the user. So "opensource" in this case is just a marketing term, like the in case of TiVo.

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