Twitter/X to launch voice and video calls w/o a phone number 😳👀 \ stacker news ~tech

Pros... video and voice calls. Cons... who and how have access to the data 🤔 😐 😕

Woah.

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26 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 31 Aug 2023

Stay away from Elon's KYC trap.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 1 Sep 2023

Since hiring a WEF agent as CEO.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Yeah. Seems this way. It'll all eventually be leveraged and sold.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @npub1freed0m 31 Aug 2023

Simplex Chat has Voice / Video calls, w/o a phone number and without any user identifiers at all

Plus you can run your own server, it's fully open source, audited, and secure/private by design.

If you want to announce something to the world, the best place is Nostr.

If you want to communicate privately, the best place is Simplex.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 1 Sep 2023

I'm a HUGE fan of simplex! 💯

200 sats \ 2 replies \ @brandonsbytes 31 Aug 2023

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Not sure your age/demographic... but Facebook was an "everything app" when it blew up.

There was no vine or instagram or snapchat or Twitter. Nothing.

Ok, there was MySpace and LiveJournal but they didn't quite have everyone on it.

Facebook was THE place to be and everyone came... then videos and all the other stuff.

The rest is history. Not saying it's good or bad but just how it went.

511 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 31 Aug 2023

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 31 Aug 2023

love the speed of product upgrades

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @brianh 31 Aug 2023

wut? calling and video chatting on ~~twitter~~ i mean X? no thanks

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Pretty much.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @AllCatsAreEvil 31 Aug 2023

We don't need x for those things, screw rocket boy

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Haha. He's done a boa load for pushing humanity forward IMO.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @badabing 1 Sep 2023

All hail lord Tusk.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 31 Aug 2023

So, it is WhatsAppX (with default being public rather than private visibility on messages?)

Skype 3.0 ?

35 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Great comment. Skype 3.0

1 sat \ 4 replies \ @TheBTCManual 31 Aug 2023

Sooo skype? lol Why don't they just add keet/holepunch to their stack or hopefully this pushes nostr clients to add it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 1 Sep 2023

Skype is a relic without the market share of X.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton OP 31 Aug 2023

Whatsapp.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 31 Aug 2023

Keet was supposed to be open sourced before the beginning of this year (2023).

Until then, I won't touch it (again).

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @ryu 31 Aug 2023

Jitsi exists.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 Sep 2023

Don't you need a phone number to sign up to Twitter in the first place though?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 1 Sep 2023

Without phone number? Will it work with twitter account?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 1 Sep 2023

Elon said during his acquisition he wanted to build something like WeChat, people get late the memo.