Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

• Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, but Threema has basically no momentum behind it at all at this point.
  I’m putting my social capital behind the option that currently stands the most chance of beating out Whatsapp

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  • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Threema has a pretty big momentum in some countries.

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    • Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Then by all means keep that momentum going. I’m just looking at this from a Dutch perspective.

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      • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You can help making it stronger. That’s what I did in Germany: if people want to contact me, I usually give them my Threema ID first, everything else comes later.

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    • glaber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which?

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      • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Switzerland. ;-)

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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And Switzerlands records in terms of privacy sadly is far worse than most people think - even with the last attack being repelled.

  Matrix (preferably on a non-matrix.org instance) currently is the preferable non US and privacy friendly way.

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  • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know - this hype about Matrix reminds me of XMPP which was similarly popular a decade ago. Today, nobody even remembers it anymore.

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    • philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which hype? Matrix as a protocol is used for a decade now, especially by various big governments (French, Luxembourg and German governmental messenger, various German states, German and Polish armed forces, German healthcare messenger, various smaller projects in Latin America), is bridgeable (I currently have it bridged to Whatsapp and Signal amongst others) but I really don’t see a hype - on the contrary I only see people predicting me the immediate apocalypse of Matrix for 5 years now, currently due to matrix.org (one of a hundred instances) introducing a premium account model for the most cost intensive (heavily media sharing)users. (See below for that).

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pepperidge farm remembers, and so do I. Lots of people I know use XMPP (Cheogram, Dino, etc).

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• RollForInitiative@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They also offer Threema Libre on F-Droid for all us folks who degoogled their phone

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Until Facebook buys them like they did with WhatsApp…?

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• sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately the source code is not open

  Wrong.

  threema.com/en/why-threema/open-source

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  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FYI, while Threema front-end clients are open-source (and offer reproducible builds, which is surprisingly uncommon in open-source land), the server component, though supposedly audited, remains closed-source.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks.

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