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So, where do we go now? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it's a start that we're at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Signal has over 100M downloads on the Play Store for Android alone. I think it's well into the big names territory albeit at the lower end of the scale. As a non-profit, the Signal Foundation can probably hold the front for now as the go-to alternative to for-profit data farms for messaging.