Instead of whatsapp?

We can change mankind’s message, audio and videos app.

Today we use WhatsApp.

It is not a minor app. It replaces the old phone call; it unites people all over the world without borders. We can call China, Moscow, Guinea, without taxes or roaming.

But there’s an important thing that refers to humanity itself. I guess we won’t, but we could, adopt a less passive posture in the election of the next WhatsApp — if we indeed change our messaging application.

I used the term "passive posture" referring to elect a private company that needs profit, in order to "gift" us with a messaging application that works.

"There is no free lunch", we know. That is, the application is free, but it "eats" us, to a greater or lesser degree, using maximized efficient always improving marketing techniques. Usually to consume advertisements, without deepening much in the subject.

But there never is free lunch. If we are strict. We could at most change "restaurant".

Peer-to-peer networks teach that it is possible to use the processing capacity of each human connected to keep an active data network.

A fragility of this type of configuration appears when there are few users. With few users, such a network configuration can get completely inactive or slow.

But this wouldn’t be an issue to a message application elected by the majority of humanity.

With billions of users, millions online every second, it would not be too much dream to structure this network without owner. That is, without a company with an ultra-mega-computer responsible for managing all mankind’s message data.

Each smartphone of each small user would lend "a percent" of its band and processing to keep the whole network running. Something like that. There would be no named owner.

In such a structure, all of us, the humanity, would be our own owners of our own "WhatsApp".

We would not have to agree to share data with Facebook, for example (Facebook owns whatsapp).

This is a draft. A "light". Is it feasible? I’m not a specialist.

A layer above of "is it feasible", will we indeed do this kind of move?

Hardly.

We are still in love with walking hand in hand with mega-corporations breastfeeding us.

Thinking is flexibility exercise, though. It does not hurt.