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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, I think this basically makes Session obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

SimpleX having PFS while Session not having it also seals the deal.

[–] Scolding0513 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

agreed, i liked that session had out of the box alternative routing, but a basic vpn + simplex's new private routing knocks down one of my final gripes with the app.

although, i guess my only other gripe now is that using your simplex profile on both desktop and phone is either hard as shite or totally impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

using your simplex profile on both desktop and phone

Why would that be hard?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is Simplex based. Damn this is cool.

However, I do wish they would adopt a more decentralized approach like Jami and Briar. It is very hard to get right but it has so many benifits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any libre software with voice chat more decentralised than this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't think that XMPP clients are better, like conversations or others?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

XMPP as a protocol was great. But the problems the servers had, the mess is just a no go. SimpleX is far better in privacy and usability in my opinion. I doubt XMPP will recover anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And with its own server?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Most important part of the blog post:

We are planning a 3rd party security audit for the protocols and cryptography design in July 2024, and also the security audit for an implementation in December 2024/January 2025, and it would hugely help us if some part of this $50,000+ expense is covered with donations.