Do they do the same if you download Firefox? I remember using IE exclusively to download FF immediately after installing XP, Win 7, 10 or whatever it was.

Reddit had no bluetick businesses, journalists, authors, government reps, entire countries used it for emergency news etc . . . he wanted to destroy those, while shit-posting at the same time.

They do fail - upward. Everyone else gets to bounce off the ground & climb up again, they just move on to something better.

Please make this a post of its own somewhere. I've long suspected that the intent was to ruin Twitter for political motives rather than do anything socially constructive with it. Finally, this is undeniable proof from a court of law.

According to their FAQ: https://wiremin.org/#/FAQ

"We will release the design and/or reference code to the public when the initial version is stabilized."

EDIT: After having fully read the FAQ, I must admit, their DHT (distributed hash table) protocol sounds very neat. Being something of a protocol geek, I'll be the 1st to admit that I may be biased, so if a 2nd pair of knowledgeable eyes could try burst my bubble, just in case I'm missing something. I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
According to them, albeit with no documentation, source plus a firstname.lastname@gmail address as a contact. The lead developer seems to be an O’Reilly publisher of MySQL books but I can’t confirm that until I hear back from the developer.
Basically, these are some features:

• "Wiremin is a protocol, not a service" - so no Terms Of Service
• No registration - the app cryptographically adds users by device, so no email, phone numbers or contact reading to recommend contacts.
• No data privacy concerns as the app is incapable of storing or collecting data,
• No ads by default; therefore none of all the related drag that comes with that.
• No central storage or processing servers - all done 'on device', E2EE,
• Community driven, (I've asked for elaboration of how this is achieved)
• No metadata tracking or leakage,
• PoW (Proof Of Work) to stop DDoS,
• Mnemonic backup of account info,
• opt-out diagnostics after crashes
• Unsend within 5 minutes...
• "Information we share" ... We don't have user information of any sort, so nothing will be shared." They go on to disclose needing to share with law enforcement info about third-party services you interact with though, like Google, Firebase or Apple push notification ids - which you can turn off

It really is quite impressive, technically & they seem to have coded themselves out of the equation as they can't even see your password or recovery passphrase.

Be that as it may - as you rightly point out, all we need now is the source, without which, I doubt I could back it.
I've reached out requesting info on whether it will be full or partial source, roadmaps, transparency, funding for devs etc before downloading & trying this but it sounds fantastic - too much so, when compared to, say Discord or X.

PS: My interest in this mostly academic intrigue, I don't work for them or know them, I just found out about this a few hours ago. Most of the wording here is copypasta. I once wrote commercial protocols in the IoT space that were loosely based around early XMPP - until Google killed it. Which is why I'm so happy about the fedi existing despite the best efforts of Google.
Anyway, this protocol seems to resemble the functionality of the FOSS app Syncthing, at least on the surface. Of course with the addition of other tech. I'd love to see one or two features like this in Lemmy or Mastodon, even if I had no interest in the code. The cost of infrastructure & the need to administer it, for example, would disappear overnight.

Firefox's 'Play in VLC' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-in-vlc/ is brilliant for this - it does entire playlists too. It works with smpalyer, which is even better player than VLC, IMO.

https://www.smplayer.info/

Microsoft IS the malware

As the modern heroine & profound intellectual Philomena Cunk noted, "1 in 20 people has been a victim of crime, which means that 19 out of 20 people are criminals."

I'm not a sync user but I feel like the dev may have missed an option - pay what you want. PWYW feels almost like a donation.

Bad name choices abound among software creators. It's almost a default behaviour, especially in smaller teams or single developer situations. Like the guy who made "crap cleaner" for for his own use; he'd later share it with friends, by the time he released it to the public he was forced to rename it ccleaner, it is still going to this day as one of the most downloaded windows software (2.5 billion downloads). He could have just given it a decent name in the beginning - for free. There is also GIMP, whose name simply keeps it out of serious use, unless you already know it's capabilities.

Bluetooth provides another vector of attack for the convenience. There is already quite a list of known vulnerabilities. Yes, many of these get patched but as the open standard evolves, so do the hackers. You could turn it off entirely, plug in a cable & forget all that if all you wanted to do was use audio/video.