Those who use the SimpleX application, I would like to know if there are communities or privacy groups, the truth is Lemmy is my only social platform, a few years ago I closed everything I had to finally stop being part of the herd, or if possible.
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It’s tied to jack dorsey so I just can’t trust it tbh
First I’ve heard of this. Source?
Yes, but there were three gotchas that make it difficult to use for our purposes - one is that you have to have your phone on and connected if you want to use the same account on another device. Given I use my phone as much like a dumb phone as possible and turn data off when I don’t need it (aka most of the time) it’s impractical to use. We kinda got around this by having different accounts for different devices bit it left you guessing which account to contact someone on because you don’t know if they’re on their phone, laptop, PC, etc.
It uses a a chunk of battery and the devs seem completely disinterested in UnifiedPush.
A lesser but helpful feature that’s lacking is web chat. It’s a lot easier to get family and friends sold on alternate chat clients if they can try it out using a web browser they already have instead of installing yet another app.
Would like it more than Signal ideally. But it’s hard enough already to get people over to Signal. Couldn’t justify how much battery its notification service drained for the few contacts (all nerdy close friends) I had there. That was over a year ago so I’m interested to hear if they fixed the power consumption issue.
They have not. I checked again recently. And they’re still somewhat hostile towards the idea of UnifiedPush
I have the app but nobody to talk to with it
Same.
We should start a chat on it.
I never got over how the name reminds me of herpes simplex virus 🤣
Yes, there are privacy groups of different kinds. Try it, it’s not as hard as some people say, the onboarding and interface has been refined.
Look for “Simplex directory” and search there for groups.
AFAIK you can can discover public channels through their channel directory.
awesome idea, but the onboarding needs to be heavily simplified if the aim is mass adoption
The only sad thing is that it’s centralized, kind of signal but better.
On the privacy front I believe xmpp + omemo shines, and jami is also very interesting (though jami for some reason is doing efforts to allow LLMs agents and bots, through plugins of course not by default, but I don’t see the need of any of that stuff on something like jami). Sadly briar is on maintain mode and it was really bad on phones’ batteries, tox never took of leaving only jami like a viable distributed alternative. xmpp is decentralized and federated, doing pretty well with omemo…
I dont use it because of the lack of moderatoon tools for groups.
Also main groups are filled with transphobes and fascists, with moderators there doing nothing.
