HonorAug 19
@pelle @CoMaps There is no evidence that the owner of SimpleX Chat, Evgeny Poberezkin, is a Nazi or a Trump sympathizer. Poberezkin, a UK-based developer, founded the app to prioritize user privacy and anonymity, stating that SimpleX is "100 percent private by design" and does not require phone numbers or email addresses for registration. He expressed surprise that neo-Nazi groups had migrated to his platform and emphasized that the app was not designed to support large groups,
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> There is no evidence that the owner of SimpleX Chat, Evgeny Poberezkin, is a Nazi

evgeny has tweeted a lot in support of infamous #nazi #TommyRobinson and far-right #nationalist party #reformUK as well as a lot of #climatechangedenial and extreme #transphobia.

i remember seeing some worse posts of his but #twitter is too #enshittified for search to work at all.

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@pelle I use both SimpleX Chat & Briar because I want private chats.

Most IM apps have some controversy.

As long as someone makes IM apps that keep people anonymous and/or can work offline, people will wanna use them.

I prefer using SimpleX Chat over WhatsApp 100%