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Is there any good private messenger at all? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by JustMarkov@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I'm a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can't say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I'm not very familiar with them.

So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix

yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 3 hours ago

From what I've seen there's a lot of very bad security advice out there with even tech journalists and such just straight up repeating stuff they don't understand

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