Last year, I outlined the specific requirements that an app needs to have in order for me to consider it a Signal competitor. Afterwards, I had several people ask me what I think of a Signal fork c…
I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.
However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them…
It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I’m kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again…
My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that’s the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P
Also “convincing people” lately goes smth like this for me:
Do you have WhatsApp or Messenger so I can send you some pictures?
No I don’t use apps that do not respect my privacy, but you can send em to me through SimpleX, Briar, Session, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Discord or email :P
Upon which most choose Telegram or Discord as their means to contact me, sadly no one had Briar/SimpleX yet.
The way i (and many others) see it, anything that is not both open source and fully decentralized is automatically a no go.
Open source for rather obvious reasons. Decentralized for less but increasingly obvious reasons (No central failure point, no central metadata collection, no central authority, no lock in).
Telegram or Discord
So yeah those are obviously shit too.
Signal is the last centralized thing i use, but im starting to phase that out now too.
With all sorts of anti E2EE sentiment and right wing parties on the rise everywhere, i would rather get rid of any communication channels that are so prone to being blocked, shut down, censored, etc.
I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.
However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them…
It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I’m kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again…
My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that’s the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P
Also “convincing people” lately goes smth like this for me:
I might be missing something, but I’d trust WhatsApp to leak much less data about me than Telegram or Discord. Those don’t have any form of E2EE.
Also, what about using Signal?
The way i (and many others) see it, anything that is not both open source and fully decentralized is automatically a no go. Open source for rather obvious reasons. Decentralized for less but increasingly obvious reasons (No central failure point, no central metadata collection, no central authority, no lock in).
So yeah those are obviously shit too. Signal is the last centralized thing i use, but im starting to phase that out now too.
With all sorts of anti E2EE sentiment and right wing parties on the rise everywhere, i would rather get rid of any communication channels that are so prone to being blocked, shut down, censored, etc.