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Is anybody else familiar with Simplex Chat? I just started checking it out a couple days ago and it seems like a neat little messenger. It reminds me of a kind of middle ground between Signal and Briar.
2023-05-14 · 1 year ago · 👍 tepez, xavi, dregos
I just checked it out
Interesting for theory reasons, but I think privacy and simplicity are too much at odds here.
From the white paper, It was hard for me grok the high level flow between two users. Is it like: (?) I connect to a server and tell it to make me an unnamed queue and please send me a key pair. I send the public key and server address to my friend. They can use that to send me items, but not receive. Is that the basic idea? I don’t see the benefit to making it a one-way connection.
@cquenelle Maybe that's the way it works from the server's POV, I haven't looked too closely into those details yet. From the perspective of using the Android app, it's just pick a display name and share an invite link or QR code with the person you want to talk to which establishes a two way chat.
@satch Yeah that's always the struggle with these kinds of messengers. It's not perfect but I think Signal strikes the best balance of all the ones I've tried. I will say though that Simplex's Android app is surprisingly easy to setup and use considering how it works.
I just installed SimpleX. Very nice from a user POV. Less bloated than Element, which is what I use day-to-day.
However, I want to see if I can switch away from the default servers. obviously, it’s not a privacy issue, but what is the point of decentralization if everyone uses the default servers.
I read about SimpleX and I liked its focus on metadata-resistance. Is there however any GUI client for desktop GNU/Linux or *BSD?
Not last I checked unfortunately.
There are indeed GUI desktop apps for SimpleX :)
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