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What an awful name though. Why would you name a messaging app after herpes?
Horrible names seem to be a thing in open source projects.
Looks at GIMP
Its like a workshop for photos I guess
When I first heard it, I thought it was a name of a stock photo bank.
I remember on July a project named crackpipe launched
Is it related to X?
I never made that connection.
He who smelt it, dealt it! 🤣
Although I doubt that Signal would leave the EU (or that this dangerous regulation would even become something that could ever be applied in practice), SimpleX looks very promising as a possible alternative.
However, it would also mean that you have to convince all your contacts to make the move, too - which was already difficult when I told them to install Signal additionally to WhatsApp, which is virtually on almost every device.
it won't be easy, yes. but I think that with Signal everything will be ok 🙂