this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago
  1. if they leaked something you wouldn't know because US government law doesn't allow them to disclose if they requested data.
  2. uses AWS servers that also the gov could ask for access to Amazon directly without even talking to Signal, being centralized and depending on AWS infra is also a weakness.
  3. needing phone numbers to register, often tied to passport and it is super easy to get your whole network when compromising 1 device
  4. all centralized services start nice, attracting users, once they have you, and money starts being a problem.... meet: enshitification