someone on Lemmy made a post recently about an app that checks which apps you have installed are open or closed source. i dont remember where it was posted, but i really want to know what it was called again. after searching online, on lemmy and even through AI i couldnt find it. please if someone knows what im talking about HELP

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still better than Discord, I guess

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

discord doesn't need phone numbers but forbids 3rd party client implementations. telegram needs phone numbers and mandates their proprietary client for registration.

imo they're both equally bad lol

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Discord is by far worse. 1bn in VC funding and all that Nitro and it still fucking sucks ass.

It also enables far more of the "discord moderator" stereotype user behaviour.

At least telegram runs on garbage and doesn't require 4GB just for electron to sit in my system memory like a fat pigeon.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

agreed, the telegram client is very well made. runs smoothly even on my core2duo.

but the service as a whole, doesn't seem 'better' than discord on the privacy side, just the same level. telegram even provides stuff like unlimited storage (which is too good to be true) and don't have a clear monetization scheme, advertises like an encrypted messenger when almost nobody uses their e2ee feature. the whole thing looks like a honeypot to me.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I consider if you're typing words into a computer the CIA is reading it. Its a generally good idea to assume everything is already compromised.

They're currently snarfing all the encrypted data to later decrypt it when the technology becomes possible, betting on quantum computing to break our current encryption technologies.

Its the only explanation I have for why AI needs disk storage. They've already indexed the internet, no?

Also, impressively, it ran like butter on a HTC ChaCha about 10 years after that phone was relevent, and was a joy to message on.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Actually, IIRC they did some stuff in plain text. Best case scenario they are the same, it's just that these corsairs work for a different crown.

Right now, for FOSS projects the best alternative to Discord seems to be Fluxer (or XMPP if you don't need voice channels). Best alternative to WhatsApp / Telegram looks to be XMPP.

However, there are more popular alternatives to those, however they come with more privacy concerns.

Discord/Slack:

Matrix is more popular among FOSS projects that chose a FOSS messaging platform. Leaks metadata.

WhatsApp / Telegram

Signal

Centralized. Leaks metadata.