SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)
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SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

SimpleX Chat is an instant messenger that is decentralized and doesn’t depend on any unique identifiers such as phone numbers or usernames. Users of SimpleX Chat can scan a QR code or click an invite link to participate in group conversations.

-privacyguides.org

It’s clearly proving to be the most innovative technology when it comes to decentralized communication, in my opinion.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    91·
    7 months ago

    Seems like another one of those mobile only messengers, not really interested in those to be honest.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        7 months ago

        Ah, must have missed that one, though

        Using the same profile as on mobile device is not yet supported – you need to create a separate profile to use desktop apps.

        is a pretty major downside.

          • taladar@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            7 months ago

            But wouldn’t that mean if someone writes to your desktop profile you can’t respond on mobile and vice versa? And you would have to be added by everyone else twice too?

            • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
              8·
              7 months ago

              Yes.

              You have to switch between devices.

              When this becomes seamless, it’ll be a more competitive app.

              Also, it’s a ram eater on my phone

            • starlord@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              You just never use a desktop profile. You have an account on mobile, and every time you go desktop you sign in with the app and qr code so you’re always using the same db on each machine.

              My desktop app has zero profiles and no db; I only sign in with my mobile.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
          1·
          7 months ago

          For a while, it was only CLI and not even listen on the project’s main page - it was only linked on its Github. But now there is a GUI in several forms and it is listed on the main page, so kind of interested where it all goes.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
      31·
      7 months ago

      This is why I use Wire.

      Desktop is a first-class app (not dependent on a mobile app), no phone number required, and syncing chats between all your devices just works.

      Wire hasn’t been updated in 2 years on fdroid tho, so I’m eager to switch to something else. But nothing else exists that meets these basic usability reqs.

    • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      7 months ago

      There is a desktop app but linking is not as easy and featured as Session, which is really easy to use on multiple devices, but then you lose the superior security of SimpleX