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Meta is collecting your #WhatsApp metadata 👉 Protect your communications with these European alternatives to WhatsApp!

WhatsApp shares:

✅ Your location
✅ Your device
✅ Who you're writing
✅ When you write them
✅ How often you write them
✅ Whether they reply

Are you already using one of these #PrivateMessengers?🔒

Best European WhatsApp Replacements: Olvid, Wire, THreema, Telegaurd, Skred, Gino Private.
#whatsapp #privatemessengers
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
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This is going from "we're worried about our data" to "fuck America" pretty fast if you're even not mentioning Signal anymore.
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Baffling7384
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Baffling7384
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Three and a half of these I've never even heard of.
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Dominic
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Dominic
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I guess Signal is not European. All good. Thank you Tuta. I didn't know these existed.
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Gilberto Ruiz
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Gilberto Ruiz
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There's a typo on Teleguard. Also, even if it's not European, @signalapp is the way to go. :)
@Signal
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Toran "Torspedia" Shaw
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Toran "Torspedia" Shaw
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Why didn't you not include @matrix on this list? They're a UK based Foundation.

Unless you're referring as Europe and the EU as the same thing... when they're both completely different!

@The Matrix.org Foundation
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Johns
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Johns
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Even though its "US based" I bet @signalapp will leave in a jiffy if/when someone attempts to get control of it.
Also @Mer__edith is a badass ^_^ (read or listen to any interview if you don't believe me)
@Signal @Meredith Whittaker
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Rodrigo Pio
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Rodrigo Pio
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which of those are capable of interoperating? Because if we don't solve that, we'll be pretty much alone in our little nichesque messenger apps. For now, American or not, I have to stick with @signalapp app... it was hard enough convincing my family and friends to use it.
@Signal
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Vanstra
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Vanstra
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Why is Olvid on the list? It's heavily promoted by the French government. The French government who wants to have a backdoor in e2ee.
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Artem R 🇺🇦
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Artem R 🇺🇦
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@Vanstra Olvid has reasonable good UX and is used by the French government, so it won’t shutdown like matrix main server
@Vanstra
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Vanstra
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Vanstra
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@asci that's not my point. I mean how secure is Olvid when it is heavily promoted by a government which also is promoting a law for breaking e2ee
@Artem R 🇺🇦
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Artem R 🇺🇦
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Artem R 🇺🇦
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@Vanstra and just in mastodon.social/@fj/1141990632…

Frederic Jacobs

2025-03-21 06:43:36

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🔐✌️ Victory for Privacy and Security in France 🇫🇷

End-to-end encryption will continue to be available in France, as the assembly overwhelmingly voted against (119 votes against, only 24 in favor) an amendment to legislation fighting drug trafficking which required backdoors in encrypted messengers.

lemonde.fr/societe/article/202…



L’Assemblée nationale vote pour le maintien de la confidentialité des messageries cryptées, lors d’une nuit agitée

Malgré une panne du système de vote, les députés ont repoussé, jeudi, la mesure défendue par le ministre de l’intérieur, Bruno Retailleau, qui aurait permis aux services de renseignement d’accéder aux messageries Signal ou WhatsApp des narcotrafiquan…
Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)

@Vanstra
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DigitalDigger
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DigitalDigger
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The challenge is to get your contacts use one of those including Signal
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Ed57
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Ed57
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@simplex
Tool is a tool, origin is not a matter, as long as tool is FOSS.
@SimpleX Chat
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Angela Scholder
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Angela Scholder
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Yes, Signal is US based, but still very much a good alternative for WhatsApp and Messenger.

Threema works perfect.
My experience with Wire was that the app just lost contact with the network... Properly!

The others no experience yet.

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Reexamine8875
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Where's Matrix? Like I can host a server in my home country and use that protocol, wouldn't that also be quite vaild?
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Azarilhⓥ
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all these are useless if friends won't switch too... Some of my friends even INSIST on using only Discord. Ewww

Not even encrypted!