If anyone knows about any private & preferably also secure instant messengers with low or no barrier to entry, specifically something easy for people that are technophobic or have only ever used Telegram or Discord, please tell me about it. I want a li...
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If anyone knows about any private & preferably also secure instant messengers with low or no barrier to entry, specifically something easy for people that are technophobic or have only ever used Telegram or Discord, please tell me about it. I want a list of things I can do research on.
I know about Signal, Matrix, SimpleX, & XMPP. Matrix & XMPP are big & scary to the type of person I'm thinking of & also neither are good anyway. Please don't say email, it's not an instant messaging system even if your client looks like one.
Boosts appreciated.
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signal can be pseudonymous, with caveats:
- don't share your number, set a handle and share that
- set a generic profile photo that could be SFW or NSFW (not tied to anything)
- set a bio that doesn't out you
- disable notifying people you joined by phone number (it helpfully uses their contacts, not your contacts, and isn't consent-respecting by design, and could out you)current limitations:
- group stuff: @signalapp doesn't have a feature to let you delete mass spam messages from a user as an admin. very weird. you can appoint admins and block people though. user forum hostile to mod concerns.
- thread stuff: signal doesn't have threads/rooms, you'd need to be in multiple named groups for this
- sticker adoption low