Signal ?
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Thanks, I'll check this out!
Signal is likely the best and easiest drop in.
Signal, hello?
So it seems.
Signal.
Thanks
Signal!
Thanks
nothing better than Signal
Seems like it.
Not looking for discord type feel. Looking for easy set up and communicating with older people and able to share videos and images.
Everyone is saying Signal, but my family uses a Matrix space (mix of phones and PCs in this case) and it works great. It's FOSS, federated. Truly future-proof.
Yeah. Signal is the most polished, but Matrix is the most future-proof.
And that's not to say that matrix lacks polish, Signal is just excellent in this regard.
At this point I feel the Matrix clients I've been keeping on eye on are more polished than Signal. None of my contacts are on Matrix though.
Yeah? Which ones specifically? I like to keep tabs on Matrix - it's really the most open of the secure systems, and if it's clean enough to recommend, all the better.
I recommend Element web (it has a nice PWA), Element X for Android, and the matrix.org homeserver. They're in the middle of a migration to OpenID Connect which should simplify auth for users. You may wanna wait for that.
Thanks!
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Signal
I'd recommend Threema. It's privacy focused, based in Switzerland. You don't even need a phone number to create an account, they collect no data on you (claimed, but haven't checked) and the code is open source, under A-GPL 3 license.
There's a build for Apple and Android, for which you pay once.
I use this to talk with important family members.
I forgot to mention, it's easy to use, as it's similar to every other messenger app, so even not so techy members can use it.
Looking for a free solution.
Signal is a nice suggestion but is based in the US meaning they could be subpoenaed and legally not allowed to say. It's unlikely you'd be targeted though, unless you're a very high-profile person. If you're concerned about where servers are being run and who by then matrix is a great alternative.
Do they have a warrant canary? I bet they might, hopefully
I don't care. It's for sharing images and videos of grandkids to grandparents.
I've been using Delta Chat for the last few weeks, its very similar to WhatsApp, but decentralised... Works very well, available on android & ios, definitely worth a look, as it could be good for your use case..
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I just got to know about Delta Chat which sounds fantastic as it basically uses your email but wrapped as chat.
XMPP and Matrix are other good options too, although these require creating an account (Delta Chat can work with your normal email account).
The good thing about these last 2 is that they have calls and all that stuff.
Clear vote for Matrix.
Easily works with basically every system from iOS, Android, Windows, Linux,Mac and there are Web-Clients as well. And everyone can find their own client of choice.
You can use one of the huge federated instances like matrix.org or set one up yourself.(Which is much easier than setting up an Activity pub instance,btw.)
There are rooms/channels that can be open or semi-open just like in Telegram, and bots are absolutely not problem (Not Like in signal). Registration is not bound to a phone number like it was in signal for a long time (but is no longer) and (unlike still needed in signal) a phone does not need to be used for sign up&transfer between devices works seamlessly.
If you selfhost or use beeper you can even bridge to different services (signal,WhatsApp, telegram) etc. so you only use one app for everything.
Whatβs missing from the text and photos functionality of text messaging, that you need from this app?
Photo/video sharing will undergo re-encoding under some circumstances, like mixed Andoir/iOS groups
How can you even do mixed Android/iOS groups right now from iOS? I keep seeing people refer to that, but before I installed the iOS 18 Beta that added RCS, I tried and non-iMessage βgroup chatsβ were essentially just a broadcast list where the recipients just saw it as coming from me.
Iβm in a couple. Theyβre not behaving as youβve described, but Iβm in an iPhone 11, so thereβs that.
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Text messages drop quality of images and videos are terrible. Can't do anything over 10 seconds.
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