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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yes it uses your phone number. You now have the option to use a username though.

Personally, while I totally understand the criticism, this is not an attack vector I am concerned with. I want a private messenger that hides the content and metadata of my messages from ad companies, spying neighbors, and the government. Signal does all of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I mainly want personal family photos away from long corporate data retention (and possible leaks) and away from AI scrapers.

Delta Chat covers this.

I'll check out Signal again though, thanks for the recommendation.