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Hello, Iโ€™m doing some research for my family and friends to help them navigate the tech space and recommend them some better privacy focused alternatives. Iโ€™ve been stuck with the most important piece: instant messaging.

Ideally I would like something:

  • decentralised
  • Foss
  • Possibly not tied to phone number
  • Encrypted
  • Not funded by an US or Israeli company
  • Fairly easy to use by not tech people

If I manage to convince them, I canโ€™t make them change in a year or so, the alternative needs to be future-proof.

  • Signal: is Foss (not completely) but not decentralised (one โ€œwrongโ€ update and we are back to square one) + very much american funded
  • Matrix: foss and decentralised but funded by an Israeli company (sorry I really canโ€™t)
  • Telegram: phone number registration, not fully encrypted, server proprietary
  • Theema: server side not open source
  • IRC: no video/audio calls, not encrypted

That leaves me with SimpleX and XMPP, I think (I donโ€™t know much about them). What do you guys use/recommend?

Iโ€™m reading [this wiki page].(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_protocols?wprov=sfti1#Table_of_instant_messaging_protocols)

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[โ€“] BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 hours ago

It doesn't run on the OG Tor network itself as I understand it - people run their own specific Session Nodes that act as the "tor-like" backbone.

The crypto part is because to set up your own node, you proof of stake a bunch of their coin, and if your node is found to be unreliable or blatantly malicious your stake is locked (or even forefitted? Not sure about that part)