william.maggosThe history of #AOL #InstantMessenger.
The public interest might be obvious and the developers might be dying to build it, but ultimately, given the chance, corporate greed wins and our best ideas get delayed.
Computertruhe e. V.Warum, wozu und wie wir den Instant Messenger „Signal“ vereinsintern seit zehn Jahren nutzen
#Signal #InstantMessenger #DIDAY #DID #DigitalIndependenceDay #DigitalerUnabhängigkeitstag #DUT
Paolo RedaelliRE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116007605131589165
#Signal is down. Time to learn #distributed #instantMessenger such as (in no particular order): #SimpleX, #XMPP such as #Conversations, , #DeltaChat, #Matrix (i.e. #Element or #FluffyChat)
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 AmbiyelpThese comparison tables are pretty digestable
https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
@SanskritFritz
@jwildeboer in case of doubt there's this very detailed comparison page of #InstantMessenger programs https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
@jwildeboer in case of doubt there's this very detailed comparison page of #InstantMessenger programs https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
@jwildeboer
Just a serious, genuine question: with the fragmentation of #InstantMessenger alternatives what program do you suggest? #xmpp, #deltachat, #simplex, #Matrix #jami #Briar
Just a serious, genuine question: with the fragmentation of #InstantMessenger alternatives what program do you suggest? #xmpp, #deltachat, #simplex, #Matrix #jami #Briar
Der WahlberlinerFast alle nutzen Messenger-Dienste. Vor allem einen. (Statista, Info + Kurzkommentar) #Messenger #InstantMessenger #MessengerDienste #Whatsapp #Telegram #Signal #Facebook #GoogleChat #IT #WWW #Internet #Technik #Gesellschaft
@miya Simplex has a lot of the same advantages of signal and is better in some ways
both are floss messengers and have quantum resistant end to end encryption
simplex has multi profile functionality and anonymous invite links so each dm can be like a burner phone with no single user id to connect you to all your dms
simplex is decentralised, while unofficial signal servers cant federate with the official servers simplex is built as a decentralised network of relays that can pass messages to each other for enhanced privacy and ip obfuscation kind of like tor, and its apparently very easy to run a simplex relay bc you dont need a huge media server files and messages are ephemeral its up to end users to archive or back up
Signal was attempted backdoored by the uk govt and was only saved by signal threatening to walk, if simplex is ever compromised or enshittified forks can be made without losing your contacts we aren't totally reliant on the official simplex relays unlike with signal
#FLOSS #InstantMessenger #SimpleX #Signal #QuantumResistantEncryption #Censorship #UnitedKingdom #E2EE #Enshitification
Karl Voit 
#Signal Should Improve Visualization of Its #Privacy Properties
https://karl-voit.at/2025/10/12/Signal-Privacy-Properties/
This is my proposal on how anybody could check what (meta-)information is known to which communication party when interacting with the #SignalMessenger.
If you already found such an overview, let me know.
Farooq | فاروق [Master Patata]I just checked the #Telegram bot API.
The number of other chats the user had to join in order to be eligible for the giveaway.
This is part of their GiveAwayWinners API. I remember Telegram was better before...
But let's see the upside. We can hope that a new hope will emerge, in the case it already hasn't.