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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as "an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse."

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[–] Pechente@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

With the open nature of the fediverse I actually see some potential here. Right now there isn’t a single messenger that I truly like. They’re all just different shades of okay or worse.

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Signal is great, but the core developer is inherently against federation with his own product. It's just one giant centralized service.

It feels like I'm doing shady backdoor deals. It's only for the people I conspire with and really close friends...

In which we just end up using regular old sms anyway lol.

[–] poop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Signal is too darn secure. Much better to have one dude who probably knows how to use a crypto library build the whole thing over again with a coat of ActivityPub on top

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Pechente@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn‘t quite have the userbase at least for me. I‘m only using it for one work contact and that’s it. I also heard from others who use Element a bit more that it’s quite buggy, although I haven’t experienced that myself yet.

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just don't think that new msging app will have a larger userbase than matrix. I hope I'm wrong tho

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Especially considering that they made gitter into a matrix client, and several IRC servers are easily available.