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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by perryizgr8 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:06PM (#25666359)
How's signal different? It's also in the same position as whatsapp was a few years ago. For the time being it may be better, but surely it is not a long-term alternative?
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by iforgotpassword on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:28AM (#25668656)
My thoughts as well. If the product is free, who is paying the devs? Who is paying for infra? I'm exclusively on Threema since it's not free, and the yearly external code reviews are stellar. The only thing that bugged me was that it was not open source, which changed by the end of 2020. Multi device coming this year, which was the last thing missing for my use case.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Bit32 on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:35PM (#25688039)
> signal

Amongst many, many other factors, it's a nonprofit foundation, not a commercial company.

Long term, it has backing from people (like the original founders of Whatsapp) who want to see an open solution flourish. Plus people can donate.

Also, both the client and server are open source.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by midasz on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:22AM (#25668614)
You don't have to pick a messaging app for life.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by inbx0 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:12AM (#25668930)
If the new messaging app doesn't have an option to import previous chats from the old platform, changing platforms does come with a price.
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