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Briar use Tor by default as well for Internet connections, so I don't think Session is unique in that way. And both appear decentralized.
A difference is that Briar is Android-only, whereas session is available on more platforms https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Briar-vs-Session-vs-Signal/
It's good that people are working on privacy-preserving tools. But I wish they'd coordinate to avoid fragmentation. Work on common/standard messenging protocols, so that people can talk to each other even using different software.
Currently it feels like going back to the 1990s-2000s, with ICQ/AIM/MSNM being all incompatible, and every single one being unable to communicate with a large fraction of your contacts.
Fair, I've never used Briar, so I was mostly responding to the others. I complete agree though, the fact that there are so many is super frustrating.