this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
223 points (95.9% liked)

Technology

61227 readers
6115 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 31 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't want WhatsApp & I avoid the 'stores, so it's F-Droid options for me...

Any opinions on Jami?

I'm also seeing XMPP mentioned in the comments, so I might look at that a bit more...

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saving you the bother, Signal is good, but requires phone number and the desktop client sucks, while the generally recommended federated FOSS things are all over-engineered and morally obsolete. One can't rework XMPP into a modern standard, and it's complex. Actually Signal's authors have published a couple of articles explaining their choices in making it.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I found SimpleX Chat to be a fairly decent alternative without phone numbers.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How, in 2024, are people still using TEXTs??

There are so many apps for encrypted messaging, even fricken WhatsApp.

How do people still use text messages

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It's an American thing.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] zephorah@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal or WIRE.

When the article about end to end user encryption messaging platforms mentions neither I have to question why it’s even an article.

Signal or WIRE.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Maverick604@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Session is very good and doesn’t require a phone number (like Signal).

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t believe Signal requires a phone number anymore

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›