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Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update by geoduck14 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:13PM (#25898301)
I have an idea!

An app that aggregates all of your different social networking apps (think AIM, but for social networks). When you talk with your friends, each of your messages get sent to different social networks -round robin style- this only gives each social network a portion of the conversation. Your friends must, of course, also use the same tool to stitch the conversation back together.

Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update by AnthonyMouse on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:40PM (#25898441)
There used to exist applications like this, at the time (i.e. the 90s) when apps didn't have automatic updates. What happens now is that the same company that runs the server and makes the official app updates them both at the same time to change the protocol, causing the app that supports all of them to break until they update it to support the new secret protocol. Then people stop using it because it's breaking all the time.
Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update by Zuider on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:39PM (#25898430)
Social media aggregators intended to post messages to many clients have been tried before, but they have consistently failed because the social media companies, notably Twitter, changed their APIs to frustrate the possibility.
Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update by ccleve on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:07PM (#25898971)
Seems similar to spread spectrum radio signals, also known as frequency-hopping. By hopping from frequency to frequency in a way that only the sender and the receiver know, you can avoid both obstacles and eavesdropping.