Mullvad VPN has DAITA which does something similar but more legit

Most are staying, but there’s a growing shift to simplex among privacy/anon focused people

1. Signal uses closed source and centralized servers to deliver all your messages. Some people don’t like their communications being dependant on a corporations computer, and would rather maximize data sovereignty when possible.

2. phone number requrement is unacceptable to some people

If SimpleX makes bad choices it can be forked and self hosted, whereas we would be locked in with signal and at the compamys whims

It’s OK to stay on signal but to say no one is switching is untrue.

It was pretty small numbers before (darknet) but a youtuber called Mental outlaw did a video on it recently and now it’s exploded into the more mainstream privacy communities.

It isn’t perfect, and signal has a lot of perks but there’s no need to literally ignore new developments

Its a LOT more anonymous, not slightly.

For the overwhelming majority of users phone number alone = no anonymity, then there’s the fact you’re relying on a corporation to store all your messages on their closed source centralized server…

If you want privacy you either do graphene on a pixel (cake and eat it too), or linux phone (huge downgrade in usability and reliability)

Stock Android is not acceptable, it’s even worse than Apple.

ungoogled chromium removes this

uh wasnt his passport revoked mid flight and the plane landed in russia against his will?

hes been basically trapped there

We made a diff acc for each device and then added them all to groups

Works for us ymmv

I read several of his books but didn’t know he had a podcast :(

Have you tried embracing the dope boy chic?

That sounds pretty based

We’ve been on simplex for a few months, I like it quite a bit. We made diff accounts for each device and added them all to a group.

Notifications arrive reliably on graphene (no google services), and KDE connect.

I don’t love the desktop client and wish I could change text size and scaling. I was able to message the dev about it in simplex and got replies which was cool