A genuine discussion about the best FLOSS decentralized system to share poop emojis and videocall your dog.
Personally it’s between SimpleX and Briar, but SimpleX having an iPhone app so people I know can use it makes it win out.
I would use simplex if there was a desktop client. I like Signal because I can use it across all my devices.
The desktop client is in beta right now. I should go public by next week for all platforms save windows. Windows is planned for about a week later. However, in the first phase, there will be no account syncing (but it’s on the roadmap). So you will need one account for each device, which is fine imho, since you can set up groups instead of 1-on-1 chats to resolve that issue.
It runs well enough in Windows Subsystem for Android!
Right, you can just use an Emulator. If the apk runs on x86 not even that, Waydroid on Linux works natively
Signal is wannabe private because of phone number, metadata and contacts mining (even though they say they don’t, they can). Simplex looks promising and the guy is headed in the right direction. As soon as he makes it that the servers cannot correlate which IP is talking to which IP, I will say they are a really good solution. Telling people to use Tor with your app for privacy is not a solution.
Besides that, it is a very well made app that has a nice UI and works very well. Also many good features.
Im not a fan of no identifiers. Sure simplex is secure with it but I would like to see something like simplex that uses 24 word seed phrases to generste millions of unique identifiers the user can easily backup and restore from a piece of paper and not from a digital backup file.
Another super cool thing about it is that it’s written entirely in Haskell!
Simplex chat isn’t really decentralized. This makes it simpler at the cost of centralization
It’s not P2P, but it definitely is decentralized, as in anyone can set up a server:
This!
