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hointytointyon “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

Not to mention the questionable ethics of supporting companies that are so blatantly anti-user. Facebook and Google can now tout "Moxie approved" crypto while their business models of surveillance remain intact.

hointytointyon “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

If you only need voice + video, Ostel has been running for a few years.

https://ostel.co/

hointytointyon “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

Conversations.im has made great progress in making XMPP usable on mobile devices, although its services don't seem ready for public adoption quite yet. There are very few XMPP servers which support the XEPs Conversations does so while federation is theoretically possible, it is not yet a reality.

https://account.conversations.im/

hointytointyon WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook

Cory Doctorow explains why we need a "Ulysses Pact" to avoid situations like this.

http://craphound.com/news/2016/06/24/how-to-protect-the-futu...

hointytointyon “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

How much do you want to bet they will make sharing mandatory in 6-12 months? Opting-out is a fig leaf to head off bad press in the short term.