'Don't like Prav? You can port your account to another app in the Prav network, eg. Quicksy.'
This is not possible with apps like #WhatsApp, #Telegram or #Signal. You are at the mercy of your contacts to switch your messaging provider, even if you like another app.
In India, we can port our sim cards any time if we don't like our current provider or a competitor offers a better deal. #Prav and #Quicksy offers this portability. You can switch apps and still talk to your contacts. #xmpp
Thanks to @badrihippo for the poster.
@praveen I was listening to an (old) episode of @hello's #Decentered podcast with @jesseplusplus where they were discussing something similar. Crazy how platforms like #Meta coerce you into staying on saying "awww look at all these friends you're going to leave behind!" as if you have no way of keeping in touch with them outside your network 🙄
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/frequency-jesse-karmani/
(Federation takes it a step further, of course, because you don't "abandon" your friends even *on* the platform you're leaving!)
@praveen xmpp needed this love for decades!! since our day with pon/poff and pidgin :P
awesome stuff
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