Re:The Best Alternative for Every Facebook Feature
by reacharavindh on Saturday March 24, 2018 @04:51AM
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I wish there was GNUbook or something that is run by a non-profit organization like Wikipedia that provides a service that serves as a social ID(think like a portable phone number), and then let people use whichever "messaging service" they like by bringing their ID with them. This way the messaging services become replaceable and users a avoid the network lock-in.
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Re:The Best Alternative for Every Facebook Feature
by 0kto on Saturday March 24, 2018 @06:16AM
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So [matrix] seems to fit the bill: federated network, bridges to other services (like IRC), encryption, you can write your own client or run your own server...
[Matrix]: https://matrix.org/