Quokk.auRussia’s VK unveils WeChat clone built on Putin’s orders: the app has mic and camera access, gathers user data, and shares it with the state
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LibbWe're so lucky to live in democracies where our elected representatives don't try to do a very similar thing by, say, weakening encryption and forcing the use of backdoor.
Sunshine (she/her)Dumb Russians use Max.
Average Russians use Telegram.
Smart Russians use Matrix.
Very smart Russians use SimpleX.
donut_deliveryHow SimpleX is better than Matrix? It's way less known than Matrix (it does not even have a Wikipedia article), that means it's way less reviewed. The fact that it does not have IDs does not make it much better, because people usually talk with people they already know.
Matrix stores everything across redundant servers, with optional encryption (while some things like room names and ranks are never encrypted), while SimpleX uses encryption for everything.
Basically SimpleX is decentralized Signal.
I'm not sure why jump to mentioning it because it's lesser-known (and still not as feature-complete as Signal), but IIRC the lead developer may be of Russian heritage.
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It's not WeChat, it's ШеСнат. That's an entire alphabet of differences! /s
defenesstateechat.
Who the hell do they think they are? Microsoft?!
So Meta?
In communist Russia, turns out social media is just like in capitalist west.