Recent intrusive changes in the privacy policy of WhatsApp (including the sharing of never before seen amounts of unencrypted user data with the parent company Facebook) have prompted a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to the secure and open-source alternative Signal. I have been hoping for a change like this for years. I wrote a non-technical blog post about the problems with WhatsApp in detail, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of other messaging apps as well.
maybe it’ll be the age of jabber, who knows
maybe it will be the year of linux desktop
at last 🤗
finally, the 137 year wait be worth it :)
We joke but in a couple years Deepin will likely be the most popular Linux desktop outside of North America and Western Europe.
This is actually a bit ironic as WhatsApp is “Jabber”. Even uses an inhouse customized version of Ejabberd as far as known (for sure that is what they started with).
I think that is cool, though. Still remember when whatsapp was new, it was a good app back then.
I couldn’t quickly find a link to a site without ad cancer, but there are many stories of the WhatsApp creator calling out FB for destroying the app:
The sources:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/hours-after-data-clash-report-whatsapp-founder-says-hes-leaving-facebook/
https://amsterdamtimes.info/after-data-clash-report-whatsapp-founder-says-hes-leaving-facebook/