What do you think of SimplexChat? It does not require a phone number or account setup and you share single use links to set up a chat so there’s no identifiers that can be traced back to you. I’ve been using it with my friends for years now. It has some reliability issues but you can even host your own server if you want full control.
Simplex is good. There are actually many private and secure, yet simple ways to communicate online. The problem with all of this private chats is not that they themself are bad, but that normies often prefer convenience of big tech apps over less feature rich, but private and secure messangers, even if setup is as effortless as simplex.
Signal still requires a phone number to register an account. Matrix is the only reasonably private messaging service outside of darknet.
What do you think of SimplexChat? It does not require a phone number or account setup and you share single use links to set up a chat so there’s no identifiers that can be traced back to you. I’ve been using it with my friends for years now. It has some reliability issues but you can even host your own server if you want full control.
Simplex is good. There are actually many private and secure, yet simple ways to communicate online. The problem with all of this private chats is not that they themself are bad, but that normies often prefer convenience of big tech apps over less feature rich, but private and secure messangers, even if setup is as effortless as simplex.
Actually, they somewhat recently added phone numberless registration. It does require a $2.99 fee however, apparently to prevent abuse.
Oh, that’s a great step by signal!
But
Maybe that part can still improve? Still, great addition. They have to start somewhere.
If $3 was all we needed to prevent abuse my childhood would’ve been a lot better.
Well prevent abuse that was also prevented from requiring phone numbers …
Not like those are perfect, just less bad than email.
Or XMPP, if configured correctly. There are others as well.
Yeah fuck phone number based services! Tho i would like to mention, matrix isnt the only service thats private, take a look at reticulum for example.
Ive been using Disroot conversations. No phone number required