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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by utf_8x on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:03PM (#25663936)
Yes it is: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Telegram's backend is closed-source.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by NullPrefix on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:17PM (#25664093)
Yeah, but your instance can't communicate with other Signal server instances, so it's pointless.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by tharkun__ on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:48PM (#25665518)
No it's not pointless. It might just be pointless for the "socializing with random people" use case.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by NullPrefix on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:35PM (#25674249)
Yes it is, because you can't join two servers at the same time. You run your own server, I run mine and we can't communicate until one of us decides to drop our whole network and join the other server.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by tharkun__ on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:46PM (#25707664)
That's fine. As I mentioned, the use case you are talking about makes this pointless.

Someone that needs a special set of phones to be able to communicate securely and not be reliant on a publicly run server? Here's a non pointless use case.

I'll let imagine who might run something like that.

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