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What is smart to use as messenger? Briar, SimpleX or XMPP? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by mayzvonhamburg@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What do you recommend to use while taking into account chat control? I was thinking about self-hosting XMPP. I'd love to hear your advice

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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago

Huge warning about XMPP:

If you encrypt with OMEMO (which seems to be the only accepted encryption nowadays), forget about being able to sync your messages to a new client. Forget about being able to try another client. That is, unless you want to lose all of your message history.

When I found this out while installing another distro... It made me so angry I literally stopped using it. I recommend Delta Chat, Matrix and Signal nowadays.