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		reedciccio 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is ... Doesn't Whatsapp already use an open source protocol? https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

drnick1 34 days ago [–]

AFAIK it's Signal with proprietary extensions, so it's effectively closed.

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