In the past, I have talked positively about #SimpleXChat messenger @simplex being an emerging alternative to other messengers. I have even recommended trying it, to some.

This is definitely ending today.

Throughout 2025, I've repeatedly seen SimpleX's founder and director #EvgenyPoberezkin being quoted with some strange statements. This morning, after another such mention, I set aside some time to review his posting history.

I ended up utterly appalled. Not by some lonely, isolated post I happened to stumble upon. Instead, the complete portfolio of extreme-right, "anti-woke", and libertarian BS gets promoted and reposted, continuously:

Xenophobic rants about migrants; attacks against the European Convention on Human Rights (#EHCR); #transmisia; anti- #DEI agitation; support for JD Vance's fantasies about "missing freedom of speech" in Germany; climate change denial; anti-vaxxing crusades ("COVID vaccination was a genocide, on the scale well beyond Nazi war crimes"), and support for RFK Jr's other attacks on science; defamation of the welfare state; celebrating #Trump's "great leadership"; siding with him on declaring antifascists "terrorists"; praising fascist rallies in the UK; the list just goes on and on.

Nothing good can come out of a place firmly under the control of such an individual.

Please do not support the promotion of such agendas. Stay away from SimpleX Chat, and please forgive me for recommending that you try it.

#privacy #USpol #UKpol