lcalamar Make a fork and call it IsimpleX Chat?
SimpleX Chat
a month later
I like and recommend Simple X. Let's mass adopt it.
I have read on this before, am planning on looking into this. I do like what I see in it
3 months later
Using Simplex Chat here. Surprised it doesn't get more attention, tbh. You can run your own server, it's open source, and it's had a security audit.
justcurious Thanks for the comment.
Is simpleX Chat easily installed and used? The only way I'll get my technophobe brother using it is if I spring it on him during a confidential issue, and it'd have to be "plug and play" or he'd give up.
newbie24689 Fairly easy to get set up on and use, I'd say. I don't use it actively, but I have tested it out in the past.
If I recall correctly, you install the app, and you can connect with someone else either via accessing a link, or scanning a QR code.
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matchboxbananasynergy Thank You for replying!
Presuming you have tested/used Signal and Session, do you see this as becoming your primary app with new correspondents? Possibly replacing S and S with ongoing correspondents? TIA
Yes - just install and go. It's a great app and my primary messenger now
Wife is on IOS and we are testing SimpleX messenger now. Will see how it goes.
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billinmtl are you still using SimpleX please? Can you report on its functionality?
At this time, we are using Signal - did not have any issues with SimpleX, found the UI a little buggy so hopefully things have improved over time
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billinmtl thank you mate, it's the messenger of choice I will be trying out in the near future as a Signal and the like alternative.
lodart I have not really looked into SimpleX. I did a search on how well it protects metadata. This thread came up:
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MoonshineMidnight this can be easily overcome by using VPN
[deleted] Of course, but I don't see SimpleX suggesting it on their website.
lodart I like the concept of SimpleX, but app fatigue is real. I push as many uninformed towards signal as possible for simplicity sake, but being decentralized is a plus for sure and is the future of secure messaging. Sethforprivacy had a podcast with the founder of SimpleX worth a listen if you're interested.
https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s3e02-simplexchat/
This write-up on Reddit totally crushes simplex. Thank you for posting it.
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spiral you don't seem to understand that this write up can be applied to any network enabled app and that all communication is encrypted. So I don't see it crushing anything.
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[deleted] But SimpleX dev wrongly claims that SimpleX fixes this problem, which is bad.