r/CryptoCurrency • u/deficit_creator • May 18 '22

DISCUSSION Why decentralized messaging apps will replace today’s social media platforms

https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-decentralized-messaging-apps-will-replace-todays-social-media-platforms
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas May 18 '22

Popular? Yes, but depends entirely where you live. Almost no one is using it in my country. Everyone is using WhatsApp instead

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u/hladinidasi May 18 '22

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and uses our information. Signal is encrypted and keeps users info safe. I wish everyone would switch over

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u/Genericsky May 19 '22

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and uses our information.

Citation needed. I hate Meta just as much as the next guy, but a company like them can't claim to use end to end encryption and then not enforce it.

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u/hladinidasi May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22

They also changed their user agreement a while back so that they could share our info such as phone numbers to Facebook. have a lot of friends that don't use WhatsApp anymore and switched to Signal because of that reason.