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[SOLVED] What is the best private messaging app? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by artiman@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/privacy/p/1774168/what-is-the-best-private-messaging-app

Hello i am looking for a private messaging app to chat with my family, What would be the best option to use I want it to be decentralized, user-friendly and have good and secure E2EE, must be free as in beer and open source, I have used matrix and didn't like it because of encryption issues, I am currently using XMPP but I am having issues with image uploads and image downloads, I am considering deltachat and it seems to be the best option, if anyone has any suggestion that is better i would appreciate it.
EDIT: i tried out all the recommndations and simplex was both the best for me and my family liked the UX more than the other ones

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Signal meets your requirements except for the decentralized part. But as you've pointed out, the decentralized options also have their own issues on other aspects. So at this point you have to decide for yourself and weigh the options based on what features you prioritize and which ones you're willing to sacrifice.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have considered signal but unfortunately it's blocked in my country iran, they also need phone numbers which they most likely will not accept iranian numbers because of sanctions. but yeah thanks for the recommendation.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

That sucks to hear, sorry about that. I hope you find a good solution!

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Frankly I wouldn't trust Signal since their bullshit reasoning for dropping SMS support was "engineering costs".

SMS is so hard to do (yes, that's sarcasm) there are free apps that do SMS, because its ALL handled by the OS - you merely read/write the SMS database (it's been this way since 2015).

I can't trust an org that lies so blatantly.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 week ago

Frankly I wouldn’t trust Signal since their bullshit reasoning for dropping SMS support was “engineering costs”.

Where did you hear that?

The announcement that they were discontinuing SMS support (https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/) provides an entirely different reasoning.