I don’t mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.
But certainly not coincidental
All encrypted chat apps are one strong-arm subpoena away from sharing their logs with law enforcement.
How does simplex compare to signal?
No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.
Also has an independent security audit.
To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.
So then how do you pair with a connection? Do you send them (out of band like through email or something) some kind of key that they then accept? That sounds super annoying.
In person with a QR code
Or a link.
For me, the main distinction is selfhostability (although I have concerns about the majority keeping using the default servers, I could still ask a friend or family member to use mine).
Also I am a bit concerned about them pushing the “No identifiers” thing which seems misleading, since you’re still identified, just per-conversation.
Amazing how we never get these headlines…
“PC gamers are fleeing windows to Linux because microshit is a creep”
Why are they moving from telegram?
researchers found that in the wake of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and charges against leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective, dozens of extremist groups have moved to the app SimpleX Chat in recent weeks over fears that Telegram’s privacy policies expose them to being arrested.”
Telegram has been supplying US government with data on its users
https://www.404media.co/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s-user-data-to-the-cops/
Sounds like a virus. Herpes SimpleX? Have fun with that.
Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever