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What's the best messaging platform?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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I'm intrigued by Threema.
But I have enough trouble getting people to use Telegram and Signal.
In the end, don't let perfection be the enemy of better than what you have.
For example I use WhatsApp for like 80% of my communication because 80% of them are non-nerds that are barely moving from rawdogging SMS to an encrypted platform. I'd rather use WhatsApp than SMS.
I don't have any meta accounts and my WhatsApp number is different than my cell number and is registered internationally in a privacy focused country. So to Meta, I'm protected by those rules and any invasion of my data by government forces would need an excuse big enough for international cooperation. Not just the local PD of a podunk town.
I've found that SimpleX is one the best option, it use the Signal protocol + more and has really robust anonymity (in fact it's Signal but without inconvenients) Threema is a company, you shouldn't use it
It's a company that's model is one I support. If you're not paying for the service, you are the product. Eventually the free-ness of other solutions will run out. There's only so much VC money and grant money that doesn't have alterior motives.
Paying a company to provide a service, which does cost real money to operate, makes me more happy if they abide by their rules.
But it's a snowball type issue. I'm not going to use Threema if nobody else I need to talk to doesn't use it. And they aren't going to use it if nobody else does. WhatsApp has critical mass across the world except USA because iDiots don't understand. Signal and Telegram have mostly negative awareness due to copaganda telling the general populace that encryption is bad and only shady people use encryption to hide criminal activity. Everything else, (excluding China and their whole different ecosystem) is really just nerd talk between nerds.
You're right, but I would prefer to use something that isn't relaying on any type of company, my go-to is SimpleX, fully decentralized and you can run your own server. Just great I think