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dansup

The Great Migration 🚀

X ➡️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG ➡️ https://pixelfed.org
FB ➡️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok ➡️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube ➡️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp ➡️ https://signal.org

Ethical. Federated. Open.

Spread the word ✨

Pseudo-intellectual White Man

@pwm@darkdork.dev remote

@dansup In what possible sense of the word is signal federated? I genuinely was unaware of this.

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Radiation Craziness

@techindepth27@mastodon.social remote

@pwm It's not; that's why there's an asterisk by it with a note at the bottom.
I'm guessing he added it as there's not really a federated messaging platform at the level of WhatsApp yet.

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Pseudo-intellectual White Man

@pwm@darkdork.dev remote

@techindepth27 oh the post got edited, I see.
Deltachat would be a sane suggestion in its place imo as it runs over email. Alas.

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Radiation Craziness

@techindepth27@mastodon.social remote

@pwm Looks interesting, I don't think I've heard of Deltachat before. By far the biggest issue with new messaging apps is you have to get everyone you're talking to to switch too and I just got most of them to get Signal so I don't think I'm going to be able to get them to switch again lol

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Pseudo-intellectual White Man

@pwm@darkdork.dev remote

@techindepth27 Deltachat provides an interface and equivalent (if not better) encryption to signal/telegram/whatsapp. You can run their dedicated chatmail suite of software or even point the thing at any email server with imap (I host my own using maddy this way). Which is pretty strong for adoption imo because everyone has email already.
I use the hell out of it for internet people and cannot recommend it highly enough.
But yeah, the main problem of setting up software to talk to people is that you largely only get to talk to people already using it. As before, that's partially solved by the fact that everyone has email so the only barrier is installing an app, but even that's too much friction for many.

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h4890

@h4890@alive.bar remote

@pwm @techindepth27 This is the way!

The only thing that is stopping me from using it is time. I'm already on mailinglists and mastodon, so I cannot take in another platform without it taking up too much valuable time. If I do, one of the other two has to go.

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Pevin Kinel

@pevinkinel@mastodon.social remote

@techindepth27 @pwm just wanted to say that actually Delta's onboarding mechanism is the simplest and fastest i've seen. Start it the first time, write your name and that's it. Because it's not linked to a phone number nor pre-existing email, you don't have to go hunting for a confirmation link/code. Made the transition super smooth for a bunch of friends here

@delta