Are you looking for an alternative to WhatsApp and the GAFAM services? Let yourself be seduced by this Breton instant messaging, which has chosen eco-responsibility and protects your data.
With its two billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging in the world. But the recent behavior of Mark Zuckerberg – and more generally American tech giants -, which multiplies foot calls to Donald Trump, strongly worries French users. The pattern of Meta notably decided to end the company’s diversity policy and deleted its Fact-Checking program on Facebook, Instagram and Thread, marking a major decline in its content moderation policys and opening the door to the spread of Fake News.
Many users are starting to say that it may not be good to depend as much, digitally speaking, American giants and entrusting them as much of our personal data. Some even go so far as to call whatsapp and company boycott! But you still have to find European equivalents to meet our needs!
Precisely, a Breton start-up may well offer us an alternative Made in France to WhatsApp with its Treebal application. This has emerged near Rennes in 2021 and is now used by more than 50,000 individuals and 40 public and private organizations. It is accessible for free on the Play Store and the App Store for individuals. There are also paid formulas for professionals in the private or public sector.
As on classic messaging, it allows you to chat with your friends and tribes (name given for groups). However, it stands out in terms of personal data. Being based in Europe, Treebal scrupulously respects the GDPR. In addition, the company does not rent or sell the data of its users, and has no economic model on data, unlike other similar solutions. If it collects the phone numbers well to connect users between them, it never displays them in conversations. Obviously, everything is encrypted from start to finish.
Treebal has the particularity of being an eco-designed, that is to say that it has integrated the environmental dimension into all the stages of its design and its realization. Thus, the developers have chosen an adapted technical architecture in order to avoid back and forth with the servers and delete unnecessary treatments: messages are thus delivered as close as possible to users.
For their part, they are to sort through their messages to reduce the pollution of the servers. They have the possibility in particular to choose a seniority threshold for the deletion of their messages, seven days being the default option, and the maximum amount to one month.
In addition, each profile displays an “eco-score” which symbolizes their contribution to the reforestation projects supported by Treebal. The more they use the application, the more they share it, the more they contribute, the more their eco-score increases. Finally, the company undertakes to donate 10 % of its turnover to local social and environmental projects. So, do we let ourselves be tempted?