What’s app claims E2EE but it’s not really they store everything on their servers that any one of their staff can access at any point
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AgentBoom@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m surprised, nobody is mentioning WhatsApp as an alternative. They released usernames a few months ago, all messages are end-to-end encrypted, will add voice and video calls to WhatsApp Web, many people and companies have an account there already… It would be an easy migration, but awful for privacy.
scala@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Your cloud backups are not encrypted either, and you have to explicitly opt out of cloud backups. That means any chats or group chats that involve someone who hasn’t opted out are sitting unencrypted on Meta servers. Even if everyone has opted out and assume it’s encrypted, they still know who you’re talking to, when you talk to them, how frequently, etc.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 days ago
That is false.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal aren’t Discord alternatives though? There’s no ability to have multi text and persistent voice channels in groups.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
I’ve said this a lot in different places and the Lenny community is so small folks might even recognize me repeating myself, but I’ll say it again here. The problem with recommending a good Discord alternative is that Discord is different things for different people. For some it’s streaming. For some it’s video calls. For some it’s voice calls. For some it’s DMs. For some it’s group servers. For some the image and video sharing is an important aspect. It’s hard to recommend a good alternative because you’ll always inevitably run into the problem of someone saying “but it doesn’t do the thing I use it for.” The reality is that folks might need to use multiple apps to meet their needs if they migrate.
If you’d skimmed the article you would’ve seen thY they suggested Discourse which the author openly admits is a forum, not a chat app. But hey, that’s what some folks use Discord as.