I’ve been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I’m a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can’t say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I’m not very familiar with them.

So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?

  • Maseo@rebel.ar
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    14 hours ago

    @JustMarkov “Good” by what standard?
    How anonymous do you really need to be? How much convenience are you willing to sacrifice in the name of secrecy?
    I’m not an activist or journalist, I don’t live in a very authoritarian country (although I’m a bit cautious about sharing my political views)
    So, for me sharing a phone number is not a big deal. But for others it might mean more.