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Best apps for private messaging (www.privacyguides.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Maragato@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello. I am looking for an alternative to Telegram and I prefer an application that uses decentralised servers. My question is: why is the xmpp+omemo protocol not recommended on websites when it is open source and decentralised? The privacyguides.org website does not list xmpp+omemo as a recommended messaging service. Nor does this website include it in its comparison of private messaging services.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/assets/img/cover/real-time-communication.webp

Why do you think xmpp and its messaging clients such as Conversations, Movim, Gajim, etc. do not appear in these guides?

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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago

And no mention of threema even though it fulfills all their listed criteria

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/threema-instant-messenger/1679/2

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Interesting discussion, the opinions go both ways but the official ones seem to disregard some facts and base the decision on some arbitrary ones that were not listed in OPs linked article, which I find quite biased or at least untransparent.