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Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork) (soatok.blog)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you happen to have an experience with using briar and can comment on it? It seems cool and using its mailbox system on a secondary old phone to get 100% uptime despite it being p2p is a nice concept. I just havent gotten around to really testing the UX when using it with multiple other people much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.