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So long as it's open-source and E2E encrypted, I'm extremely on board with this. Simply giving people a better option that actually has their interests - instea
by _bxg1 8y ago
So long as it's open-source and E2E encrypted, I'm extremely on board with this. Simply giving people a better option that actually has their interests - instead of corporate interests - at heart could be a great way to solve the social platform debacle.
- basetop 8y agoThe app they created is for government officials only : "Only official French government employees can sign-up for an account". But they open sourced the code, so you run your own version of the app. But not sure how useful it will be if no one else is using your app. The network ( millions of users ) that whatsapp and telegram has generated is the primary draw now for them.
- geoah 8y agoYou have it backwards. Matrix [1] (the protocol and network) and Riot (the client) are both open and used by many many people already. The matrix team on behalf of the French goverment [3] developed a fork of the Riot app (TChap) [4] that connects to a private network of home servers with custom registration policies and probably other features as well. 1. http://matrix.org http://matrix.org 2. https://about.riot.im https://about.riot.im 3. https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french_state https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french_state 4. https://github.com/dinsic-pim/tchap-android https://github.com/dinsic-pim/tchap-android