Did you know @SimpleX Chat now has a blockchain/shitcoin built in (called Flux)?

SimpleX network: preset servers operated by Flux, business chats and more with v6.2 of the apps

) Did you know they've also started doing "content moderation"—blocking users, groups and 3rd party servers?

GitHub

simplex-chat/docs/rfcs/2024-12-30-content-moderation.md at 821f034d18930c5c32d1c010a72bff15775b9337 · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! ...

Yeah, so far it's only to stop CSAM distribution but we all know how that's a slippery slope. The good old "Think of the children" tactic. If there's a method to ban, block or censor, it will be used and ABUSED. SimpleX Chat may have good #privacy but it's not decentralized, neither censorship-resistant. They also seem too concerned with complying with Google/Apple stores—“(...)there are requirements we have to comply with that exist outside of law, e.g. requirements of application stores.” I also found out they are getting funded by VCS such a Village Global (

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), which have backers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Anne Wojcicki and others.

SimpleX network: the investment from Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric, v6.0 released with the new user experience and private message routing.

This is not freedom tech. I'm out. DYOR.