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HistoPol (#HP)

@kino @distopico @smallcircles

(4/5)

...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...

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HistoPol (#HP) replied to HistoPol

@kino @distopico @smallcircles

(5/5)

... 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

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