IRC – Real Alternative

If you're looking for one app to bring you the new privacy that people aren't too sure WhatsApp gives anymore, then you're looking for the wrong thing

IRC is more than just an app, it's a protocol. And it can be accessed by any number of apps – you can even make your own application (or "client") and you can be sure that it's going to be as secure as whatever you want

People who want you to be invested in one app aren't really interested in your privacy at all – they just want you to use their app so they can be some sort of viral billionaire or whatever their tech start-up looks like it ought to bring to the masses – a killer app, or whatever

In my world view, tech is a genre of music with dutty bass and deep sounds. I still have my own platform though – the platform of choice by security-conscious people all over the world. All you need to do is go through the difficult bit – learning how it works – and then you will be completely decentralised and free just like those technologically apt people who have been using a platform like mine probably their whole lives

They don't associate it with one particular app, because they work with a number of different operating systems perhaps, because they know that the same thing is available anywhere and you can use whatever client suits you to contact other people

Sad sad story tho... for IRC to be successful – that's the name of the protocol – people like you have to use it. It's available for all the start-ups and technical support channels you can fit together, and a link to a free reign on IRC where privacy is an opt-out rather than an encroachment, this encumbrance which has the transcript of every conversation you've ever had going all the way back until when you installed ....

You don't install IRC, you use it. The security isn't tied down to your phone number or government-issued photocard ID documents. But it's just as end-to-end secure as WhatsApp is supposed to be. Actually it's end-to-end-to-end secure, which is even more secure and can be verified by a trusted certification authority just the same

You can even make your own certificate to specialise the client-server communication specifically to your self-signed certificate and it will completely work for you without the people on your notify list / on the same channels as you / in your private message tabs

To top it all off, the network is just a text relay. If you're not on the channel, if you weren't there when something was said and you got there afterwards / left just before... then you're never going to get that message, it's not going to be kept anywhere, and neither will anyone else

Something to think about