Well its run by a US company, and they dont allow anyone else to distribute versions of their app (eg fdroid), even though its open source. Also the server code is not open source. I prefer Telegram, at least this way only the Russians get my data.
Having Russians getting your data instead of Americans is a choice one can make, but since TG doesn’t support e2e in Desktop clients, it isn’t really comparable I think. It’s a cloud messenger that also supports e2e in some cases, so while moxie surely gets your metadata, Pavel gets everything.
Ah I’m wrong about that point then, but the others still stand. And I prefer for Russia to have my data, because they certainly dont work with my government, but the USA most likely does.
The best option is Matrix, but so far it still seems too complicated for the average user.
Distributing the code is not the same as open source. They prevent others from distributing modified versions of the software, which completely goes against the spirit of open source.
Well its run by a US company, and they dont allow anyone else to distribute versions of their app (eg fdroid), even though its open source. Also the server code is not open source. I prefer Telegram, at least this way only the Russians get my data.
Isn’t this the signal server code? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Having Russians getting your data instead of Americans is a choice one can make, but since TG doesn’t support e2e in Desktop clients, it isn’t really comparable I think. It’s a cloud messenger that also supports e2e in some cases, so while moxie surely gets your metadata, Pavel gets everything.
Ah I’m wrong about that point then, but the others still stand. And I prefer for Russia to have my data, because they certainly dont work with my government, but the USA most likely does.
The best option is Matrix, but so far it still seems too complicated for the average user.
The client app for Signal users is also non-free software soon to be removed from the FSF Directory:
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Signal
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Distributing the code is not the same as open source. They prevent others from distributing modified versions of the software, which completely goes against the spirit of open source.
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