Unseen (whatsapp alternative) for Jolla? Let's ask them [not relevant]
Background:
Facebook is renewing their privacy policy (again) for, IMHO the worse (again), and this time I'm no longer willing to conform to the new policy! So I started looking for an alternative, an alternative that has the main features of Facebook that are important to me, which are, wall posting, groups and private messaging. An important feature of this alternative social network would also be privacy.
What I found:
I quickly stumbled upon www.seen.is, which is a site hosted in Iceland (great privacy laws). Their slogan on the front page is:
"What's Happening Here ? We’re a rapidly growing community of like minded people who have come to seen.is because our privacy is respected. In case you’re wondering, we’re hosted in Iceland where there’s still a lot of freedom."
It has just about all the features important to me, including the ones I listed above, and they work great. The PM section however is not working for groups (yet), but to my surprise, they also have a multi-platform messaging service, called "Unseen" www.unseen.is (clever huh?)! This service is still in beta, but already has mobile apps for WP, iOS, Android and Ubuntu(!!). I contacted the Unseen support center regarding a possible port for a native Sailfish OS app and they were not resistant at all!
What to do:
Seeing as Whatsapp is not going to release a native Sailfish OS app anytime soon, I think we should try to engage the folks over at Unseen and show them that the Sailfish community has in interest in their services, what do you think?
Me and a few of my friends have already moved our group chats over to unseen and we couldn't be happier!
/esmBOS
Is it a fully decentralized system? If not, I'm not interested.
Fuzzillogic ( 2014-12-31 15:01:51 +0300 )edit