I'd say the real first is Signal tbh, but not taking anything away from SimpleX
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
10 points (81.2% liked)
Privacy
32471 readers
345 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
He specifically articulates the problem with Signal in the talk which is collection of metadata (phone numbers).
As bad as it is, phone numbers are a feature, not a bug
A feature can be turned off. Phone numbers are mandatory for a signal account
Just checked my battery usage by app.
SimpleX has the first place with 35%, with the next app being the browser with mere 12% :/
The punch line? I'm not even using SimpleX, it's just installed on my phone because there were a few chats I wanted to join.
Yup it loves to run in the background on startup, I always exit it right away whenever I restart my phone... Try that on your phone maybe it will help, 35% is insane
SimpleX is great, but it needs to mature a little in regards to usability. The desktop app is abysmally slow, and the amount of memory it uses really needs to be trimmed down. If they manage to streamline these two things, I could see SimpleX becoming quite popular. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.