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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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[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The easy answer is Signal, which is good enough for non-tech people to use without much issue. It's not decentralized, but other than it just works.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 5 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.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

I'm far from an expert on this, but from what I understand, the private chat app that would be hardest to block in a situation like this would be Delta Chat. Since it uses email as the underlying transport, it can't easily be blocked like others that use their own niche transports which can be more easily identified and blocked. To block Delta Chat completely if you're not using a well-known Delta Chat server for your email, they would need to block all e-mail in and out of your country. At least that's an argument I've read.