Best “WhatsApp” alternate Apps to choose.
I STILL use WhatsApp, HELP ME❗ ️Well…
▪️Backup chats> send the Last msg to important contacts> Delete acc (“Enjoy my data” as the reason)> Uninstall>Profit
▪️Move to Riot.im (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.alpha/)- A matrix client Federated Foss
OR Wire Messenger (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wire)- Good UI, MultiOS, Email signups, Foss server
OR Foss-Telegram Fork (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/)-Good for the transition from WhatsApp. Great UI, Multi-OS; Feature-rich Caters to both types of users Big user base among alternatives Use e2e encrypted private chats & calls when required. The owner has a long history of standing for privacy & didn’t use cryptography promoted by American experts, particularly since NSA docs leaked by Snowden revealed NSA secretly paid RSA, an influential computer security firm, to use a flawed technique that NSA knew how to crack (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220)
▪️Ask important contacts to do so. Leave rest for NSO😉
▪️Why not Signal(IMO)
- US-based, Mobile no. based, Wonky UI, Feature-famine
- Owner MoxieMarlinspike has big business conflict-of-interest (millions of $’s) with Facebook, Whatsapp, Microsoft & even Google (Sells signal encryption protocol to them & promotes closed source shite like Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, skype, Google Allo, thus helping latter promote their backdoored apps as e2e encrypted.
> hence keeping users cosy in the fake sense of security & privacy)
- The owner ran hash cracking services. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/14/moxie-marlinspikes-cloudcracker-aims-for-speedier-cheaper-password-cracking/)
- Spirit against Open source-forced takedown’s of signal forks (https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217211165) & then got “recorded” selling binaries for millions to “WIRE”; later settled outside court (https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7) GoodRead👌
- Promotes Spyware play services & Playstore-a malware distributor (https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html); Had blocked non-store releases for yrs (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127) & hates F-Droid 😐
- “Signal Foundation” co-founder is the ex-WhatsApp owner — Acton (read his hypocrisy post-WhatsApp sale?😈)
- Foundation advertised as non-profit but was NOT till feb2019- Only proof (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840)
-Parent “Open Whisper Systems” started with funding from OpenTechnologyFund of US Govt(organization spun off from CIA) & criticized as aiming to facilitate existing U.S. Govt propaganda & foreign influence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund)
- More on US, Cryptography, Signal & Telegram (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine)
