If you've been watching what's been happening to Twitter since it was bought out by Elon Musk, you might have recently realized the advantages of using more sustainable, federated, decentralized, and open technologies (such as Mastodon and the Fediverse). Or maybe you realized the same thing back when Facebook changed the privacy policies for WhatsApp. Or when Signal changed their policies to include closed-source components. Or when Telegram changed their policies to allow ads and subscription fees. Or when Facebook Messenger changed their policies to disallow 3rd party app integrations. Of course there are thousands of instant messaging competitors to those, but just about all of them are designed to do the same thing: 1. Obtain a large user base by any means possible, 2. Change things, 3. Profit off of the large user base that's locked into using the product.
from Pocketnow https://ift.tt/9r54dYa
No comments:
Post a Comment