The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.

The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.

In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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[–] deur@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Signal? Just use matrix already!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unable to decrypt message

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They said matrix, not element.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This happend to me on other clients too

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Matrix? Just use telepathy already! /s

I prefer Matrix over Signal because it required personal numbers.

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Simplex is a much closer alternative

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I tried using it with a friend, and it completely nuked my phone's battery, while my friend's phone silently killed it (likely for using too much battery). I understand that truly privacy-respecting messengers will always use slightly more power than apps that use the google notification thing, but simplex is just a complete power hog beyond any reasonable limit. Hopefully they fix it at some point, it seems like a pretty solid messenger otherwise, and their approach to privacy and anonymity is unparalleled, at least in theory.

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

you go on matrix and some of the communities are like no matrex bad goto simplex we're there now

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Or XMPP for those who doesn't like matrix