tl;dr: ArgotWhatsapp, Messenger, Signal, Discord, Teams, SlackSome better than others, some truly encrypted and some not. What they all have in common is that they’re controlled by one single entity - yet those are the services we trust to handle our digital person-to-person communication.This is not how the Internet began, or the other early networks that were the first forms of social media. Fidonet was a network where individuals used their computers and modems, paying the bills themselves, creating a global discussion network. The idea that this was a common good for society meant that those who had the means were happy to keep it running.IRC - Internet Relay Chat - was the first truly realtime chat system where there were almost as many servers as there were universities, allowing for people all over the world to interact. No single point of control, yet all connected.We lost something along the way - but it doesn’t mean we have to accept it. Slowly, another distributed protocol…
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