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One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹, #Telegram, #Discord ², #WhatsApp ³, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

  • WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?

  • WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!

  • Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

  • Can we please get that back?

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Content warning: Rant re: Signal Shills being dangerous Tech Illiterates

Fortschritt: Google Android spioniert jetzt noch brutaler.

Google informiert seine Nutzer/innen, dass sie ab sofort durch die KI Gemini unterstützt werden - ob sie es wollen oder nicht. Gemini erhält dafür Zugang zu allen Apps, auch zu verschlüsselnden Messengern. Lokal liegen die Inhalte ja im Klartext vor, und darauf will Gemini zugreifen. Ist das der Anfang von Quellen-TKÜ (vulgo Chatkontrolle)? Googles Vorstoß riecht ziemlich streng nach Salami-Taktik in diese Richtung.

pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2

Facebook Messenger will soon include an option for corporations to send you promotional material.

Basically, spam. We’re going to allow companies you’ve interacted with to send it to you via Messenger.

Meta would like you to think of it as no different from the notifications apps send to your phone — but it’s spam.

Bitchat, Jack Dorseys neuer Messenger, will Bluetooth-Chats ohne Internet und zentrale Server ermöglichen – verschlüsselt, anonym, dezentral. Klingt innovativ, ist aber längst nicht neu: Briar macht das seit Jahren, stabil und quelloffen. Der Hype um Bitchat wirkt eher wie ein PR-Vehikel.

#messenger #briar #bitchat

/kuk