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I've seen a lot of talk about privacy minded chat clients on here but a search did not bring up Tox. I have been delving into the Gemini protocol ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) and a few folks there have listed Tox for contact. Anyone have thoughts on this?

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[–] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maintainer stole money from the project ever since then it died with it + no audit. Main reason why I unlisted it from my privacy project.

Lots of baseless clams and whatnot, more hype around it which is not worth it. I would use it but not under the incompetent management.

[–] Gritty@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So besides the management you're saying the software itself could be viable?

[–] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, as said I would use it myself instead of Element. The project always had potential and was underestimated since day one. People donated in the hope to improve the known issues + get an audit, sadly that day never came and after the shit-show that happened people lost trust.

It is not perfect, same like Element it has flaws but they are fixable with some help and effort.