It would be nice to have something Fedi to replace Signal, now that Signal dropped SMS support and seem to be trying to become the next WhatsApp/Discord.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're looking for the lemmy model of open source software on federated servers and you only have to trust the server admin, you're looking for Matrix. If you want to try something newer and more trustless, check out SimpleX!

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[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have it on my phone! Seems neat for totally anon chats.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you talk to someone else on it?

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, I would if I knew anyone that wanted to chat on it. TBH Telegram is good enough for me privacy wise. Signal if your paranoid. Discord is public chat in my mind. Slack for getting stuff done at work. Matrix / Element if I feel like going back to IRC level weirdness.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

There's matrix, but I agree making fedi DMs actually good would be nice.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it just supposed to be a secure/private version of WhatsApp?

What are they doing that is bad?

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dropping SMS support made it almost completely unusable with most of my contacts, but also they're trying to become a social media company, as if we needed another one of those.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

SMS

What is this, the stone age?