I’ve never heard of either of these. I’ve got Signal and Element/Matrix. Why should I care about anything else?
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Submitted 10 months ago by Mesaji@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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BitSound@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fingerthief@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I disliked signal app wise, and Matrix app was a buggy mess for me and the 4 other people who tried to use it as well
SimpleX was easy to setup and has been for the most part stable for all of us.
Basically to answer your question, people like different things.
Mesaji@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]inspxtr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Except for signal, matrix is also decentralized. I understand what you meant tho. I think matrix still stores user data on servers, but they could be encrypted. Others who know please correct me.
Decentralizr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks interesting, yet not open source? What is a d-payment? Some own coin stuff or erc20? Anyhow, I never used any of the two, and I wonder why we need more?
Mesaji@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I’d like Signal to not require a phone number but is pretty much a feature that it uses them. I only chat with people I know and those people sometimes want to call me. Having the phone number as the single identifier is great, else I’d have to maintain more.
Obviously it’s not good to use a phone number for many other use cases. And centralization etc isn’t great either, except for ease of onboarding etc.
What I can say is that I’d never use any more private messaging platforms that aren’t foss and federated. There’s too many closed and proprietary systems already on my phone.
pret2xyz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
What? Lemmy, the very platform you are currently commenting on, is decentralised and has nathing to do with blockchains at all. Do you think that only blockchains can be decentralised?
JoBo@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Fash paradise. Will be giving this one a miss until and unless it proves otherwise.
AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gonna give a look at WireMin. Won’t be daily driver though as non of my friends will sign up
LimitedDuck@septic.win 10 months ago
Available on desktop device (Windows, MacOS, Linux), because decentralized network may cause high amount of cellular data usage when connecting with nodes.
It looks like SimpleX does have a desktop app, it’s just via cli: github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/tree/stable#…
ISOmorph@feddit.de 10 months ago
Latest release has a desktop app: github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases
techgearwhips@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hmmm… Never heard of these. Might be time to check them out!
Mesaji@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]hh93@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So how does messaging even work when I don’t have a user id? How does my friend know how to contact me?
EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So one is not open source, the other is not decentralized. Both are equal when looking at your visual, there are only some very minor differences.
simonced@lemmy.one 10 months ago
They say they are both decentralized, or I am missing something?