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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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.
Has the XMPP servers and clients improved in such way that they are more normie friendly now? or they are still more for technical users?
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.