You can get a well grade of anonimity with Briar or Session.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Not on the same level as SimpleX. With Briar and Session you have you have the same ID for everybody.
For SimpleX you can create a new random ID with each contact, so if you talk with 8 people, SimpleX will create 8 random ID's and each contact will see you as someone different than how the other contacts see you.
Do you want anonymity or ease of use? You won't beat anything that uses actual phone numbers for mass adoption. You won't find an app that allows for true privacy that uses actual phone numbers. These things are mutually exclusive.
If I understand you correctly, I agree with you.
My point is I really like SimpleX for it's arandom anonimity, and I prefer SimpleX, but if someone wants to use Molly/Signal, then I can happily talk to them on there for messaging and call.
I won't use anything else for messaging, those 2 are all I need.
Matrix comes with a lot of issues, but many of those are at least somewhat mitigated by the ability to create as many burners as you want. Signal/Molly might not have many problems like federation leaks and servers refusing to delete data, but you're kinda stuck with your one account/ID.
SimpleX is still the best though.
I've started using SimpleX with a few privacy minded friends, we migrated our Group from Signal to SimpleX. The experience has been great so far!
What I don't like about SimpleX is that it's still missing proper Desktop/3rd Part Apps as far as I'm aware. Furthermore the whole project is still in it's infancy.
Though it's already usable day to day.
My plan moving forward with SimpleX is writing a nix-flake to build SimpleX Chat CLI on nix.
I really like delta chat as well. Anonymous mails are easy to come by and everyone has an email adress. Bonus: people actually start encrypting their messages.
IMHO, it is a good balance between adoption and security. Still not perfect, though.