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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[–] 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.