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Secure Cross-platform Messaging Client > Signal? #68

Open nelsonic opened 4 years ago

nelsonic commented 4 years ago

(Sadly) the default messenger App for most people is WhatsApp ... because of network effects and inertia.

Last year WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton who sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for the Benjamins, quit Fb and urged others to do the same: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201

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More coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp

Acton donated $50M to the Signal Foundation: https://www.wired.com/story/signal-foundation-whatsapp-brian-acton

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Related to: https://github.com/dwyl/hq/issues/517 which messaging client should we be using?

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