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Bad headline. India has banned a bunch of messaging apps, some of which are open source. To me this headline sounded like India was targeting them _because_ th
by olliej 3y ago
Bad headline. India has banned a bunch of messaging apps, some of which are open source.
To me this headline sounded like India was targeting them _because_ they were open source.
- wkat4242 3y agoAlso, unlike the article says, element is not a peer to peer chat app like Briar is. It requires a server which can federate and be self hosted but the chats and the element app itself are not peer to peer. I don't really understand why it is banned there. Matrix is a great open chat network. It solves many issues with commercial walled garden chat apps. Many of which also can't be intercepted but are not in the list of banned apps. Also, element is only one of the many matrix clients around. Fluffychat, Schildichat etc are some others. Why only ban this one? I wonder if it got a bad reputation due to its previous name which was very poorly chosen ("riot"). Element is a nice name IMO, as was the first name that it had: vector. I never understood why they dropped that in the first place. Ps Google recently banned Element as well from the store but reinstated it a few days later.
- MichaelZuo 3y agotheregister has definitely gone downhill recently.