[charcircuit]

So what? The centralized owner owns the code repo too, so such a restriction doesn't stop anything.

Even if Instagram was open source, Meta could remove the E2E chat feature.

[lrvick]

If it was open source people could fork.

[charcircuit]

But a fork wouldn't be installed on billions of people's devices.

[lrvick]

Any community that cares could then at least make the right choice of client for their community. The masses never care, but what matters is that privacy is actually a choice.