On Sb, 13 mar 21, 09:10:36, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-13 at 09:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm > >> also not aware of a viable <something else>. Fortunately most of > >> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are > >> supposed to be encrypted, at least). > > > > W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to Facebook > > (which isn't saying much since I never used Facebook and never > > looked for something like it), but there are several alternatives to > > WhatsApp (I'm using Matrix for that). Well, I'd be very interested to look into Matrix. Tried connecting to the matrix.debian.social server: with the 2 clients in buster I tried I couldn't find a way to specify SSO[1]. The Android client did recognize the server is using SSO, but I got some error after login. I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really secure/private". > https://www.xkcd.com/918/ > > Time was that'd have been a serious suggestion, but as > https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/918:_Google%2B points out, > it's not an option anymore; Google shut it down (for the general public, > at least) a couple of years ago. Had an account and tried to promote it at the time[3]. Maybe it's better it didn't succeed though. Unfortunately the only resemblance of a FLOSS alternative is diaspora, which besides an unfortunate name[4] it still misses a lot of functionality. Apparently most developers only care about the micro blogging part, or which there are already several FLOSS alternatives. [1] As per [2], it authenticates against salsa.debian.org, where I already do have an account [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial [3] Yes, I know, Google, but it was worth a try to break Facebook's monopoly. [4] While most of my close family is in the diaspora, most of my friends are not. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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