The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
Simplex is really easy to install and use, unfortunately it’s still kinda buggy, specially with public relays, I personally don’t mind buggy, I’m willing to make sacrifices for the same of freedom and privacy.
I just keep a second chat app as a failback so I can send them a message saying “ur simplex broke again, pls restart”
Xmpp has been stable for decades, tho I guess otr/omemo is hard for family to install, also doesn’t support e2ee calls (or rather, it does, but it’s complicated). But I haven’t used xmpp in a long time.
We wouldn’t have a simple and secure way of communicating?
The apple/Facebook alternatives are not good at all.
Simplex, xmpp, deltachat, briar, matrix, even session.
Anything is better than signal that relies on a centralised proprietary server and requires a phone number.
Sure, but tell my family that…
Has any of those become like easy to install and use? To be fair I haven’t checked in some time…
Simplex is really easy to install and use, unfortunately it’s still kinda buggy, specially with public relays, I personally don’t mind buggy, I’m willing to make sacrifices for the same of freedom and privacy.
I just keep a second chat app as a failback so I can send them a message saying “ur simplex broke again, pls restart”
Xmpp has been stable for decades, tho I guess otr/omemo is hard for family to install, also doesn’t support e2ee calls (or rather, it does, but it’s complicated). But I haven’t used xmpp in a long time.
That hasn’t been true for a while now.
The world does not end after apple or Facebook.