Encrypted messaging recommendations.

[deadcatbounce@reddthat.com]

Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!

I'm old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.

RedHat had been sold to the 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM' (I still can't believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn't translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.

I can't wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world's oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

Ah, so they normally use SMS between the ecosystems? Then understandanle, although that is still weird as hell because the media on SMS is bad quality (and here would also add a lot to the SMS price).

[hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world]

I'd consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it's private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can't be bought or sold, etc.

Here's the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.

[gayhitler@lemmy.ml]

Yeah and even if you’re on an ios with rcs plenty of old android devices just scale the videos down to postage stamp size anyway by default so you get bad looking pictures no matter what.

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

Here RCS is not even supported on most carriers, and aapparently on some phone models as well (some Chinaphones I think).

[gayhitler@lemmy.ml]

It’s just as well, rcs in America only has guarantees of features if you’re on the same servers as the other people, so there’s a big split between the Samsung and google rcses with all kinds of weird mixed media stuff if you’re both on gchat or the Samsung fork and nothing but maybe higher resolution pictures if you’re not.

It’s part of why I’m so willing to recommend imessage because for better or worse in America it’s the defacto standard.

[whotookkarl@lemmy.world]

Rolled up scrolls attached to foxes

[hotcoffee@lemm.ee]

Signal and Telegram both require user ID to use their apps. SimpleX-chat does not, zero registration. So if privacy is your number one whish from your messenger than SimpleX is what you're looking for.

[hotcoffee@lemm.ee]

Have it on always on, with small scale friends and family use. Don't find it too draining, updates have improved the battery usage

[hotcoffee@lemm.ee]

Bit the gist of this comment section, lots of signal users because it's the standard alt. SimpleX has better anonymity than both Signal and Telegram, which should make it way more popular for the privacy conscience.

[marcie@lemmy.ml]

Signal for your family, Matrix for online communities, and SimplexChat if you're trying to be a privacy extremist.

[marcie@lemmy.ml]

Seconding simplex. Having a built in way to obfuscate IP is very nice. But its more for privacy extremism and small group chats, matrix is best for most situations e.g. community and interest groups.

[fox@lemmy.one]

Listn, I don't mind occasionally moving your scrolls back and forth, but if you would attach them to my back instead of my legs it would make it a lot easier OK.

[deadvey@lemmy.ml]

Just a note that there's an in development fediverse app called 'sup' by the creators of pixelfed. It's not released yet but is going to be encrypted and Open Source. https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113912441928236882

[joshim@lemmy.ml]

for me it's xmpp. now that monal on ios has almost reached feature parity with conversations on android, there's no reason xmpp shouldn't be the go-to alternative to whatsapp.

I don't think signal is the answer. a centralised service susceptible to all the things wrong with whatsapp. matrix is bloated. push notifications on simplex android is still sketchy.

and i dont buy the argument that onboarding is too complicated these days. most people can make an account for anything they feel is worth it.