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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like SimpleX for not really any reason besides their ID system.

You're allowed multiple profiles, so like a work profile, business profile, anonymous profile etc.
You can only connect with an invitation. This is a huge preventative spam measure. You can give anyone specific a 1-time invitation to chat with you. Or you can use an invitation that can be voided at any time without losing any of your connections. So add it to a website, and then at some point if it gets out there, you can kill it and spin up a new one. You have no phone number or any other identifier. Just invitations.

It's a very novel approach I've not seen elsewhere.

[–] spectraxil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

and you don't need to have email or phone number to register. it really just plug and play and i think this really gonna help boost adoption