Technology

Use matrix, setup bridge (defederate from matrix network if you want), meet your friends where theyre at.

Using Threema is not an option. This is paid software and it is too difficult to purchase a license for this software when Google does not allow us to pay for purchases through their Android app store. No one from my entourage will bother paying for a license for this software using cryptocurrency. They will just install another messenger.

This is what I hate most about the privacy community, too fanatical and purist to allow extremely useful optional features that would allow them to reach more people.

Honestly would love to use signal to chat with my whatsapp contacts. Signal could just throw in privacy notice when messaging with someone whatsapp or facebook messenger.

Currently I have signal installed and used to use it to message with my so but we have both moved to discord and use whatsapp to communicate with those that do not use discord. Still holding on to signal if and when some oddball from my contacts decides to use it instead.

Threema seems to solve a problem signal has that is it does'nt need a phone number to open account . But i haven't used any of them so can't say . (If anyone wanna know i use telgram foss which is a debloated fork of the original client)

or even a Matrix service would mean a deterioration of our data protection standards

Why? They use same algos, same scheme. Just add support for matrix message format in your app.

Same

Me neither lol