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[SOLVED] What is the best private messaging app? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[-] mydude@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I tried em all, currently using session.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

How'd you settle on that one?

  • Its funding method is its own, proprietary cryptocurrency
  • It still has not, to my knowledge, added PFS back to its encryption after they removed it
  • Their software is forks of other people's stuff, specifically Signal and Monero
[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago
[-] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

They announced they're working on it recently, but it's not released yet.

Today, we are announcing Session Protocol V2, a proposed upgrade to the Session Protocol...

Their entire announcement uses future tense for V2 and present tense for V1

[-] artiman@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks i will look into it, I saw a lot more people recommend deltachat, if you used deltachat what made session better over it and the other messengers? also it uses tor, does that make it slow or is it fast enough? they also removed forward secrecy sometime ago is that a huge problem?

[-] mydude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

At the time it felt incomplete, my guess is it's a lot better now.

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