The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
Simplex is really easy to install and use, unfortunately it’s still kinda buggy, specially with public relays, I personally don’t mind buggy, I’m willing to make sacrifices for the same of freedom and privacy.
I just keep a second chat app as a failback so I can send them a message saying “ur simplex broke again, pls restart”
Xmpp has been stable for decades, tho I guess otr/omemo is hard for family to install, also doesn’t support e2ee calls (or rather, it does, but it’s complicated). But I haven’t used xmpp in a long time.
With DeltaChat you don’t even need an email address anymore, they provide it for you on the fly. They just ask your name if you (optionally) want to put it.
Can’t be simpler than that tbh.
If you want a better looking ui, check ArcaneChat for Android. It’s 100% compatible with DeltaChat protocol
Sure, but tell my family that…
Has any of those become like easy to install and use? To be fair I haven’t checked in some time…
Simplex is really easy to install and use, unfortunately it’s still kinda buggy, specially with public relays, I personally don’t mind buggy, I’m willing to make sacrifices for the same of freedom and privacy.
I just keep a second chat app as a failback so I can send them a message saying “ur simplex broke again, pls restart”
Xmpp has been stable for decades, tho I guess otr/omemo is hard for family to install, also doesn’t support e2ee calls (or rather, it does, but it’s complicated). But I haven’t used xmpp in a long time.
With DeltaChat you don’t even need an email address anymore, they provide it for you on the fly. They just ask your name if you (optionally) want to put it.
Can’t be simpler than that tbh.
If you want a better looking ui, check ArcaneChat for Android. It’s 100% compatible with DeltaChat protocol