Matrix, Briar, SimpleX, Threema

I can't even get my social circle to switch from WhatsApp to Signal, let alone anything else. I use Conversations, a feature rich XMPP client for select stuff.

XMPP with OMEMO?

I have tried them all, I just use XMPP through Cheogram (mobile) and Movim (desktop in browser) now. I have had success getting my contacts to switch since I never bugged them about any other messengers before. Plus I am willing to follow through with ultimatums of abandonment and they are well aware of that.

If you have any actually normal friends (no offense) you're going to have to use the regular phone network. XMPP has the best phone network gateway, I've bought like five Soprani.ca numbers. No it doesn't encrypt the regular phone network.

Delta/Arcane Chat is cool but due to everyone basically being an admin-level user in the chat, I strictly use it as a home base for real homies. I mainly use it to run one gajillion bots, check my emails, run Mastodon/Misskey fork accounts in one location, and send stuff/WebXDC apps to myself.

You can't seriously replace the social media monopolies or the phone network yet. I even run some Telegrams (don't make fun of me) and control them with the Delta Chat bot. People just need to get used to "backing up" their social graph with secure options, and not just saying whatever pops into their head outside them

Me? XMPP.

Most used? Depends in what circles. Telegram is popular in some. SimpleX and Session in others. XMPP in free software circles. Matrix in others.

Matrix/Element

Matrix/Element :)

SimpleX

matrix. it's not perfect, but it's the least shit option i've found so far. in the poorly paraphrased words of bjarne stroustrup, "there are only two kinds of chat protocols: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses"

Wrong, WhatsApp and iMessage fail to include a libre software license text file. We do not control them, anti-libre software. They ban us from fixing backdoors. Stop repeating their scam.

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with signal?

Wire.

Matrix is the only one I actually use other than the rest.

There is also XMPP, SimpleX, Threema, Briar, cwtch, Tox, and Delta Chat.

I use Jami and Session. Interested to check out SimpleX Chat though.

Besides your list? Matrix via element or elementX. I've been test driving arcane chat, which is decent enough, but too new to be widely used enough to really say much.

What do I use the most or what do people use the most? I use Matrix the most as most of my friends are on it (+ have it bridged with some chats that aren't on Matrix). Then after that SimpleX. I don't know what the most popular encrypted messengers among the general population, except for the ones you listed, are.

Signal. SimpleX is my backup.

Signal.

Just "encrypted"? Probably iMessage.

Threema, also has public groups sort of like Telegram

None of these are verifiably private. SimpleX, Matrix and PGP encrypted messages (you can use any messenger here) are some truly private options.

I use SimpleX most often. I use Matrix fairly often, too, but none of the rooms I frequent are encrypted.

Concersations.im. It's my backup because it supports OMEMO and OpenPGP.

Besides that, Element (Matrix). I use it for its public rooms.