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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp (greenstarsproject.org)

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Proprietary servers is still proprietary software

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

signal not being on fdroid is a strike against them

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Fair. There is Molly on fdroid if you like.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Molly is great.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Ya it’d be better if it didn’t require a phone number but it’s a solid start as it’s build up a user base over the past decade. Matrix is good but I know far less people that use it and it’ll be a long time of growing with nerdy/geeky communities before it starts getting more mainstream users

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

signal requires a phone number and won't even allow you to send sms to those that aren't on signal.

its better, but still not great.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

If you need to send sms to someone not on signal, why not just send them an sms

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

A truly ethical replacement would not need a phone number

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

And would have FOSS implementations of reference server & client + an openly specified protocol.

Like Matrix.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Matrix still has it's problems. All the meta data is still saved on every server permanently.

There is still space to improve from there.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

And it would have as much spam as email.

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