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"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps
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https://simplex.chat/
Allows multiple (self)hosted relay servers, tor is a supported option, e2ee, no phone number necessary, allows phone calls.
I tried SimpleX but the UX is still lacking. Even worse, as I've recently learned, apparently the creator is an antivax conspiracy theorist maga/trump supporter. I cannot support that.
I prefer a conspiracy theorist than a billionaire.
The Lemmy devs happen to have pretty extreme opinions too iirc
Well good thing we have federation because I moved over to piefed (I was on lemmy.world and not on the .ml instance too). Though the move was influenced more on the features.