cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night’s episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It’s brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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    8 天前

    When was WhatsApp open source? I can’t find anything on that.

    Also WhatsApp is 6 years older than Signal, they couldn’t have cloned Signal by definition.

    • ultracritical@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 天前

      Signal protocol is what you’re looking for. Started as text secure then changed name eventually. Whatsapp was never opensourced they just used the Text secure (now signal) protocol for their encrypted messages. They still allegedly use the signal protocol, I think, but with it being fully closed source and not implementing current signal feature for years afterwards.

      In other words I have a high degree of faith our nuclear secrets will only be leaked to me when our DUI hires add me to the group, again using signal. But guarantee they’re also leaked to the Zuck using whatsapp.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
        1·
        6 天前

        I know what you mean, WhatsApp is still several years older than that. They added it later. WhatsApp wasn’t developed as a Signal clone, it can’t have been, but Signal seems to try to be a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp (phone number-based (yikes), focused on messaging the SMS way but with files and over the Internet, simple profile with a status message on them, E2EE…)