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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)

submitted 2 years ago by u_tamtam@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rustyriffs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is a better alternative than signal?

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

XMPP

As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, XMPP would be my preference. It just works. In fact that's what the other messengers (at facebook, Google, …) already use, but chose to put behind a walled-garden.
What matters is that whatever comes next (or, from the past in the case of XMPP) is federated, so no single organization has a single-handed control/monopoly over the network. Matrix and SimpleX are federated alternatives to XMPP, but I don't see Matrix stabilizing any time soon, and SimpleX just isn't ready yet. XMPP can offer you today an experience that's comparable to WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram/…

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's the issue with Matrix? I've tried both Matrix and XMPP but stuck with Matrix because it just works. XMPP is also good but it lacks a good Android client (The available clients look very outdated, and honestly, pretty ugly). It's also kinda hard to know if your client or server even supports all the extensions that are needed.

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[–] gr522x@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ended my donations to Signal after discovering they choose Google Hosting Services over open source and privacy respecting alternatives.

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