Comment on A Modern Private Messenger
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The only thing that firs all your needs is Signal, we have looked into this heavily and nothing has as many features, is as easy to use as and has a strong of focus on privacy and security as Signal, so it’s either that or Whatsapp.
Matrix should not be considered because of this:
soatok.blog/…/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-libr…
and Threema is pretty bad historically, even though they have improved in the last year or two, but their desktop offering is pretty awful, as unless you want to use the beta and use iOS then you have to keep your device attached to the network, on and open on Threema only.
Signal really is the only option here.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 weeks ago
I definitely don’t consider WhatsApp to be private, Signal doesn’t support multiple Android devices and Threema sounds pretty useless. So it would seem there’s no real options? Which is a shame.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yup, all the ‘more private’ ones like SimpleX or Session don’t have as many features and are have pretty suspicious funding sources (or involved in crypto).
WhatsApp might be private but there’s no way to be 100% sure, since it’s closed source and can leak some messages in reports which is intentional.
Yes and no about Signal supporting multiple Android devices, the Molly fork might be able to if you set it up as a linked device, and we know that tablets can be linked in the actual Signal app.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 weeks ago
Given that SimpleX can be self-hosted, I’m definitely looking at that hopefully. Hopefully someone else develops an app, because cross platform apps are bullshit.