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    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      All completely irrelevant to most people. Nobody they know is on those platforms.

      There are only two alternatives to the Big Tech messengers that are anywhere near critical mass: Signal and the shady one we’re talking about here.

      Though I would love Matrix to go mainstream.