After the recent Discord incident, I was thinking, why decentralised alternatives aren't more popular? What did Discord do that Matrix, for example, couldn't?

#discord #matrix #decentralizing #decentalized #decentralizedtech

Okay, so... In light of all this government surveillance and hacking going on, I'm in search of a true proper fully anonymous, secure encrypted messenger. I tried to like Signal, but with the US Gov using it and it being infiltrated, I don't think I trust it, anymore.

Apologies. I mis-typed, there. I was in a hurry and my lovely AuDHD brain was having a moment. What I meant to say was, I like Signal, but I have a mild concern that I need to check into more, as it bothered me when I read it.

(Don't worry. I'm keeping Telegram for all the folks who won't use anything else because they're Stockholm'd babies afraid of new experiences or refuse to use other apps because they're stubborn fussy brats. Just don't expect me to use it much because it's unsafe, AI-infested, and loaded with censorship bots.)

I also want to send in-line images and videos, and also other files to my friends, without an absolutely lame af size limit like 100MB or less. (Ideally, there should be no limit, or a very large limit like say, 2GB.)

The messenger can be either P2P or distributed/decentralized.

Element/Matrix looks okay but it's designed for business, enterprise, corporate, IT, and white collar office nerds who use things like Slack, Teams, Zoom, etc and need their whole communication system integrated into a single app.

Wire seems to be going this route as well.

Tox is a newer one, and seems to have the right idea about personal chat apps, but their own website states that it is unstable and being heavily developed so there will be lots of bugs and other issues.

Session looks like a great contender, but it's pathetic file size limit of 10MB is abysmal and completely unacceptable.

I'm running out of options, here.

If anyone has any suggestions, please share.

(and don't be a smartass and suggest that I code my own, because I can't and won't.)

#chat #messenger #insantmessenger #encryption #e2ee #p2p #decentalized #privacy #privatecommunications #linux #android #windows #mac #ios

In one media article after another we read about how Threads and Bluesky are "decentralized social media platforms." Guess what, you are not "decentralized" if you only have one "centralized" server.

Can we please stop giving #Bluesky and #Threads #Meta credit for being #decentalized platforms when all they have done is announce the intention to actually someday be decentralized. Both are currently entirely #centralized corporate platforms.