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What's the best messaging platform? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Cross-posted from : https://lemmy.ml/post/16566616

Hi, I wanna know what is the most secure and best messaging app/platform... Need an app that is crossplatform and has a very good numbers of features and security. (And it has to be FLOSS) I thought about XMPP clients, Signal, Session, IRC clients.. Propose and explain me your choice

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The other day I found this, using an very old inbuild command line tool in Windows, Mac and Unix: finger

https://happynetbox.com

Write for Example

finger zerush@happynetbox.com

in the command line

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you finger your friends?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Not until now, I discovered it only some days ago. I think it's an interesting methode to send Messages ocassionaly, but not so practically in the daily use.