I know that Signal is the normie tier "privacy" app, but it's a nonstarter for me because it requires a phone number. I've been using SimpleX, but for some reason my messages are taking forever to get through. I think it's an issue with their servers. Regardless, I need a privacy oriented app that actually works. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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What a ridiculously complicated design just to send messages around.
I'll look into that. Do decentralized systems require both people to be online at the same time? That was the nice thing about SimpleX servers. They would hold messages until the receiving device came online.
I think there's supposed to be a way to use blockchain-tech to set up Telegram account without a phone number, but I can't find much on how. Check out TON and Telegram.
There's things you could do like self-hosting XMPP, but that's not going to be something that just works for, it would take time and know how.
Be sure you hold the keys regardless, if your encryption keys live on a server somewhere, then it's only as private as the ethics and terms of service of the entity that runs the server.
Prosody server is a hell of a lot easier to set up now than it and other XMPP servers used to be. It's far from normie friendly though. I don't believe it runs on Windows at all. I guess you could run it in WSL on Windows, but that's still very technical.
Clients aren't all that bad. I really only use Conversations on Android though. It's not much different than texting.
telegram is the only other one i've heard of
I don't know what kind of history you have with the guy you're arguing with, but I also found your first paragraph hard to read. I kinda just assumed you misread my post or confused Signal and SimpleX since both were in my post. I do appreciate your second paragraph though, and I hope you take this comment in the spirit it was intended because I'm not trying dunk on you.
By his own admission he does it to filter out no lifers and people who are below him to engage with. Combined with up there saying that calling him out is trolling, you can see that the rules don't apply to him because he is better than the rest of us.
thoughts on the minds.com chat feature? I barely dip my toe into this stuff, but it seems to work on windows/linux/android just fine.
That's a shame, I like the site. I mean, at least the code is open source I guess, so someone can spin it off at some point...but still...
...I suppose bitchute will disappear into irrelevance as well eventually. I still think of them as the little video platform that could, but they don't get nearly the number of hitpieces they used to...
I can't say anything on the quality of the security, but minds.com's chat feature is supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I use it with the fiance sometimes, mostly because yahoo messenger died, and I avoid facebook like the plague that it is these days
do ppl not use PGP any more?