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Tiktok cements it's #1 status
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Their client software is open source and also on F-Droid and Flathub.
Server-side is not FOSS.
Even if it was open source, how would we know they were really running what they shared?
Yeah, server side really only makes sense if you can run it yourself and federate with other servers.
Of course it being open is better than it not being open... but the real difference as in the case of Signal is minimal.
Signal is still a US-based entity, so I'm hesitant to recommend them to anyone
Sorry, this wasn't meant to be an endorsement of Signal, on the contrary. Centralized systems are a bad idea, open-source or not.
I agree, we need something with the security level of signal and with the hability to federate. Or even better, make it P2P.
This is basically Matrix.org.
How does Session fair?
That's the problem with every open source application or software, actually.
Flathub isn't open source though.
isn't it? I thought that was the whole point of "snaps bad, flatpak good" thing.
When I install flathub repository on Fedora, I'm warned that it is non-free. There is a Fedora flatpak repository, but it doesn't have as many packages.