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HistoPol (#HP)

@kino @distopico @smallcircles

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...become the biggest non-corporate competitor.

I think the challange is finding the smallest common denominator and then promoting that (except for specialits lice infosec, who can easily manage 2 or more messengers.)

This is not about convenience anymore. This is information warfare preparation. Looking at what happened in the countries of the former Arab Spring or Iran and in particular to Russia and...

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HistoPol (#HP) replied to HistoPol

@kino @distopico @smallcircles

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...foremost China gives a pretty clear picture how this might turn really ugly.

The foremost global market square of ideas, #Twitter, is already lost. It had played a vital role in the Arab Spring.

For instance, #Telegram might be #freemium software, distributed and all, but its operational servers are in the #UAE, an autocratic state, where you'd better not...

HistoPol (#HP) replied to HistoPol

@kino @distopico @smallcircles

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... be involved in serious car accient with a local as a foreigner.

In short, I think the choices would be very limited, if the criteria I mentioned earlier were applied.

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Distopico replied to HistoPol

@HistoPol @kino @smallcircles is not limited, is just the basic requirement, you don't have privacy if you don't have transparency and you can't have transparency with close/privative software

So for a WhatsApp replacement the base requirements should be

- Free software client/server
- Federated/decentralized
- Allow self hosting, so if you don't like X location of the server you can use you own server in the location of your preference
- Support e2e encryption, ideally by default and required

Distopico replied to HistoPol

@HistoPol @kino @smallcircles that is one of my points, why if we have XMPP and Matrix we want to promote more options? That makes pretty hard to the end user choice one of those, XMPP, Matrix, SimpleXChat, Jam,DeltaXChat and Signal,Threema these last two with close/restrictive parts, I prefer promote the others that respect the user freedom and privacy and have similar features privacy/e2e encryption video/calls + federation/decentralized, transparency etc

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