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    Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago

    Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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    Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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    Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago
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    Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
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      Anyone using Session? I finally got most of my friends and family on Signal so I’m not gonna switch but I just heard about it, seems pretty good.

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        The only thing I don’t like about Session is, it runs on a underlying crypto token, incentivizing the network to keep on going. https://getsession.org/blog/migrating-from-the-oxen-network-to-session-network imo

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        Basically Signal but without the weakness of a phone number & runs on a Tor-like network. It’s still a work-in-progress thing but you CAN use it to send messages

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        Have a look here: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

        I like the comparison and prefer simplex as an replacement to Signal in the Future. Self hosted Matrix Servers are a good idea aswell if you have the money and knowledge.

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