Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ? Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough to make people switch to, that won’t have issues and send them running back to zucc
Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ? Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough to make people switch to, that won’t have issues and send them running back to zucc
There is a new chat app called session. Me and my friend migrated from signal to it due to the better privacy. Check it out. It’s basically just libre messanger.
check out https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ and https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20/session-round-2/ . session doesn’t even have PFS(perfect forward secrecy), which can be very useful, so if a key is cracked, then only a few messages can be decrypted. EDIT: that was a lot of typos!
Thanks. Yk a secure replacement?
I like XMPP, but there’s also LXMF(a bit more experimental, only for ‘advanced’ users) or simply signal or simplex.
I would also use Signal instead, but Session’s situation is not that bad unless one needs to accommodate the CIA or Mossad as part of their threat model, in which case I think SimpleX would be a better option. This is also in the article you posted:
Edit: I didn’t notice that the original commenter had said they “switched from Signal” at first, which is definitely worse.
Why would simplex be better in that case?
The lack of PFS and 256bit encryption in Session is a little concerning, and one other advantage of SimpleX is that it has no unique identifiers at all while Session uses random IDs and Signal requires a phone number.
I thought signal doesn’t require a phone number anymore ?
It still does, but they did add a username system so you don’t need someone’s phone number to contact them.