Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.
Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?
I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.
If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy
Like pidgin?
Wait pidgin still works?
Yeah, I use it daily. There is discord and teams plugins for it.