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The 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,
by basetop 7y ago
The 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 7y 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