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		stevenhubertron on Oct 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook is back up If Facebook wasn’t there monetizing their data to keep them in poverty maybe an open source tool would be instead.

cmpxchg8b on Oct 5, 2021 [–]

That’s an amazingly ignorant statement. A lot of the value of WhatsApp at acquisition time was that it supported a ton of feature phones and J2ME, something largely ignored in the West. You can have open source all you want but someone still has to run infra.

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