Still using #Telegram and not the much securer #Threema?
Maybe this might help you 2 reconsider:
#Telegram owner and former #Russian #Tech Oligarch,
#PavelDurov "... was arrested at the Le Bourget airport outside of Paris in August 2024 and faces numerous charges related to his social network, including allowing terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and child abuse content on Telegram. The founder of the messaging app faces up to 20 years in prison
."
@HistoPol better a decentralized system not in company hands
#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with?
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True, however the most important criterion is that a replacement messenger app for #WhatsApp must have any chance at replacing #WhatsApp.
As a friend of mine phrased it here on Mastodon: "I have a hard time convincing my friend and family even to switch to [the known services,] #Signal or #Threema.
As...
Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with?
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... I've pointed out in an older thread here and Cory @pluralistic in a now famous speech about #Enshittification, there's the severe lock-in effect, the negative aspects of the #NetworkEffect.
There are #XMPP and #Matrix, the "ancient" and "obvious" #FOSS choices. I've never used them but from what I've read, they were never able to gain much market share and are...
@HistoPol
Well, just like similar to the #fediverse..
@thevril @pluralistic
Nicht so ganz vom Bekanntheitsgrad her, sh. restliche Antwort.
Außerdem scheint es für die #CMPP-basierten Apps zu viele Alternativen zu geben, +ähnlich+ dem Fedoversum, nur dass es da um eindeutige Nutzungsunterschiede und nicht nur um Instant Messaging geht, vgl. Grafik: