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		pmlnr on Oct 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The metaverse is bullshit > 'Meta' owns most communication channels that I use to communicate with my friends Bring them back to email, because there are still many small email providers in the UK. See https://delta.chat/en/ for email as IM.

dicknuckle on Oct 30, 2021 [–]

or just use Signal. people around me have been flocking to it from WhatsApp, I even got my wife on it.

pmlnr on Oct 31, 2021 | [–]

Signal is just another centralized service; email is a standard. You can self-host it, a company can make internal-only servers, etc. Signal disallows even custom clients, let alone real self-hosting.

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