After Trump threatened him with “life in prison,” Mark Zuckerberg has cozied up to him and reportedly allowed militia groups to organize on Facebook.
Reminder that when billionaires control platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
@Luuk_Aalders @baglava @rbreich Don't move from one walled garden to another. Use something federated and compliant with the internet standard for instant messaging (XMPP).
Monal on iOS, Conversations on F-Droid, Gajim on the desktop are all good chat clients. No phone or phone numbers required.
@wanderingmagus @Luuk_Aalders @baglava @rbreich Matrix has shiny clients and is also federated, which is good. But ultimately I think interoperability comes from compliance with existing internet standards, not from venture capital funded startups cooking up their custom protocols for federation...
It's a little bit like Bluesky vs ActivityPub, but things are worse because we cannot have end-to-end encryption without a common encryption standard for example.
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