signal is not perfect but offers a pretty awesome tradeoff balance: great ux, reliable, strong privacy guarantees matrix does not have auto delete messages and the apps are shit simplex is solid but reliability and ux could be better keet is not open source whitenoise is promising but early

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Element X works kind of nice, but yeah, I am missing a better UX overall on desktop and anywhere outside Element X for matrix. For me it is the best option though. Open source, decentralised, and I get to guard my own key to messages. Apps… not great but usable. To me, my daily use tool. What do you pick for secure private chatting? @ODELL
Deltachat is interesting. its Openpgp and not Signal encryption. so no perfect forward secrecy but e2ee chats over email?! Not Another Protocol™ ? and its extremely easy to spin of an email server so you can have your selfhosted strong encrypted messages and hide metadata without dealing with Simplex relays and usability.
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Alvaro 3 months ago
I’ve been using simplex for some time and I’m very happy with it. Has tradeoffs? Yes. But also way better privacy Signal without phone number would also be something to consider for better UX
@ODELL you are damn it right. People out there want to keep it simple, reliable and functional. Easy. Give them what they want in a profitable way.