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What is Snikket?

Snikket is a messaging app with a focus on privacy and ease of use.

To support your privacy, Snikket is fundamentally different to other messaging apps that you may be familiar with.

Most popular messaging apps are developed by large businesses who provide the service for free in exchange for gathering data about you and showing you ads. In addition, all your messages travel through internet servers operated by them.

Instead of a single large corporation controlling everything, Snikket is decentralized. It is built on a network of smaller independent providers. Everybody is able to choose a Snikket provider that they can trust and yet still communicate with anyone else in the network.

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[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Similar here.

Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.