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Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook and WhatsApp – Great idea, but re-purpose existing decentralised alternatives like Mastodon, Matrix, Friendica, etc
The point is so many open source alternatives already exist to Facebook and WhatsApp, all of which can be locally hosted and can federate where required. Local rules can also be set and managed for these networks, and they can be easily branded to suite Ethiopia. Open source means you can see how they work,...