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A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 76 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Fuck I wish my old elementary school friends and parents wouldn't use Messenger. I'm eternslly stuck on that platform.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Does Whatsapp connect to messenger like Instagram does? Not sure it's any better though, since it's still owned by Meta. I wish I could get everyone on signal

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does Signal do end to end encryption? That's why I use telegram.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Of course it does? That's like one of the main headlining features of both Signal and Telegram, and why people were looking at either instead of Whatsapp. And it was even louder than Telegram about it, since telegram uses (or used) a closed source encryption, while Signal was vocally using an Open Source encryption standard if I remember correctly.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    i saw one person do something like this: messages JOIN ME ON SIGNAL(or anything not owned by Facebook and amazon) IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WELL WILL LOSE CONTACT SO PLEASE JOIN ME

    im not sure on how well this will work but maybe exclude you're family but try to get them to atleast WhatsApp but even better a private messager also consider xmpp/jabber and matrix for jabber i recommend calyx institute jabber server

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    try to get them to atleast WhatsApp

    WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook, so switching to that from Messenger is a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can trial out a new platform called beeper.com

    It allows you to add all your chats to 1 platform. It's in selected participants mode currently.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You're not stuck. Just leave, and make people talk to you over Signal. If they're not trying to talk to me on Signal or Matrix, I will never see it. This not only got me off of services like Messenger, but also showed who gave enough of a shit about me to go through Signal's simple setup.

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  • [+] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Two way street indeed, I didn't say all of them followed me or anything like that. I lost contact with many doing this, as expected and intended. But I got much closer to those who did move over. Most of them moved over without me even doing anything because they cared about their own data privacy and realized that it's easier to setup Signal than it is to setup an entire Facebook account anyway.

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