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Signal
A cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.
Anti-Features / Problems:
Requires a Cell-Phone
Mobile phones are not software but they have inherent anti-features which made a lot of people avoid them like fire. For example, the way mobile phones connect to the mobile network, through towers, by design, makes it a surveillance system. And the SIM card companies keep the data of where the phone goes. Notice how for this surveillance, the software on the phone is irrelevant. It could be Free or it could be Non-Free. Surveillance is done in a different way. So requiring a cell phone is a big issue.
Features:
MessengerGroup Messenger
License(s):
AGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Platforms:
GNU/LinuxMacOS
Windows
iOS
Android
Web
Accesses Data from:
signalInteracts / Publishes to:
signalInterface:
JavaScriptTouch
Custom
Electron
Electron is a stripped down Chromium web-browser used as a component in an unfortunate amount of modern software. Since it's a tiny web-browser, it gives the developers the ability to deploy their websites as pieces of software installable locally. Hopefully locally. Since it's a small browser, you can't know for sure what parts are local. Electron apps are something in between web-sites and real software. But they feel like real software to the user. One more problem with Electron is that most of the times developing a native application using a native way of rendering it will result in much, much more optimized experience. Electron apps usually eat a lot of resources.
Programming Languages:
JavaKotlin
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