Honestly, I get why one would be discouraged by signal, but as long as your threat model is not “NSA and mossad have a price on my head”, I think it is still the best non-federated alternative. I’d rather take a flawed messenger with well regarded encryption than a beta version that nobody with time and crypto knowledge ever looked at.
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Ofiuco@piefed.ca 1 day agoFuck... Is there an alternative?
Can't use telegram cus banned, won't use signal because usa and for a while they got very buddy-buddy with the zucc, matrix requires me hosting and it isn't exactly private... So what's left?
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The write-up I’m referencing has some at the end. Maybe Delta chat?
penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
XMPP?
Ofiuco@piefed.ca 1 day ago
That last part is the "problem", I just need something to text and send memes and files, but convincing the people around me to leave animations and stickers behind would be impossible.
belit_deg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been using Keet for a couple of months now, really like it. Still in beta, but you can ask questions to the devs in the open chat rooms and they actually give you sound answers
Ofiuco@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
Which one of those is closer to what Telegram brings to the table?
Mostly pretty stuff like gifs/mp4/webm with alpha, stickers, animated stickers and handling things like webp/webm, self-destructing multimedia, chats that dissapear after X time... maybe groups and channels too, adding people by alias instead of phone number (maybe qr, but not a huge link like the one SimpleX uses).You know, things that could help me to bring my "friends" and family on board or at least to give it a try.
belit_deg@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just try and see for yourself. Like I said, only tried Keet. Features
- Share files as big as you like, 2m, 2g, 2t, doesn’t matter
- Windows, linux, ios, android
- Groups, dm’s, broadcast feed
- No phone number or email needed, add by alias/link/qr
- Unlimited call quality since theres no server in between or throttling
- Share emojis, gifs, videos (no stickers or self-destruct atm)
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Take a look at Delta chat? I can’t find a fault with it yet…
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 day ago
why does matrix require you self hosting? There’s a bunch of free open-signup servers available
Ofiuco@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
Because Matrix isn't exactly private since it's meant to be a Discord clone and I share piracy among my friends and family, or for the sexy times with my friends, I need something that at least has self-destructing messages or chats where messages dissapear after some time.
I could trust it if I could self-host, but I lack the hardware (disk space, mostly) and the availability (I can't leave my pc on all the time [also I live in México, the internet is terrible and I tend to hog it if I'm downloading something]), so I'd have to trust some random yahoo with my stuff but it wouldn't have what I'm looking for anyway.
JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Electric is not a discord clone and element has a customer base more similar to slack. And to end encrypted direct messages have been the default for years now in Matrix.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 20 hours ago
matrix isn’t meant to be a discord clone, the matrix project is actually older than discord. the chats in all major clients are end-to-end encrypted now, too. are you maybe thinking of revolt?
unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It is forkable if necessary. I do think SimpleX is a great piece of software that shouldn’t be reinvented because of the founder.
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Well… Matrix. I don’t think it requires self-hosting? It’s E2EE and there are plenty of public servers.