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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Isn't signal open source though? I know being open source doesn't magically make it interoperable with other services but even if Signal or Whisper systems sell out, someone could just fork the projects

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

All your contacts will still be gone when their servers shut down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So? Data permanence isn’t the main idea of Signal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now everyone is using WhatsApp again and all energy that went towards convincing everyone to use Signal is lost. A better use of that energy would have been be to promote provider independent internet standards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not in my social circles.

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