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Barricade
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I took a look on librem. The only problem for me is called WhatsApp: without WhatsApp I'll be isolated from the rest of the world, and there's no fork.
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If you want privacy, you have to give up WhatsApp.
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Signal can be recommended
anarchovegan
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And Telegram.
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For privacy?
anarchovegan
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Yes. It has secret chat and disappearing messages as well.
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And looks like it's open source. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Didn't know that! But cool 😊
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Closed Source Fail.
"Obtain your API credentials
You will require api_id and api_hash to access the Telegram API servers. To learn how to obtain them click here....""
anarchovegan
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Holy shit. What's that? What does it mean?
How does that make it closed source?
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The point inside the open-source code where Telegram routes your connection into their centralized API,
If you want true p2p Open Source cryptocomms see https://tox.chat/clients.html
Barricade
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I know, and in fact I use Telegram when I can. Is the same issue as crypto: lack of adoption.
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Status! they have an encrypted messenger, plus I'm their creative arts ambassador ;)
anarchovegan
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WhatsApp is the facebook of messaging.