Why don't more people use it? In today's world of disappearing privacy, it seems like a very good and mature option, with a lot of cool features that its alternatives lack
>>106567521Overengineered and not torified by default
>>106567521>>106567708plus lead dev (freeze peach poser) bends the knee to please the big surveillance complex because "muh think of le children"
I tested SimpleX and I found out this shit leaks cache and convo date in the app and cache folders for it. It is so unbelivably retarded. And don't even think of sending videos with this, because the videos stay locally.
simply bad UX, groups are slow as fuck
>>106567521a lot of fake news in this thread.
>>106567521This whole app doesn't seem like a good alternative to any of the other private messaging apps. Idk, the weird sounding name, the statements that the CEO made etc. It just feels like a honeypot. Can someone redpill me on this?
>>106569623Share unfake news then
>>106567521gimmick. lead dev doesn't consider IP address as identifying information, largely centralized currently, reddit
What's a better alternative?
>>106567521It's UI is iphone shit
>>106570478I read about how the protocol is supposed to work and I like it in principle. The founder intends to make money by selling hosting/support/features rather than going to enshittification route.However there is only one implementation and it has a massive number of dependencies. Dunno if they've had an audit. That implementation is controlled by the same people who develop the protocol itself too. The UX has flaws, it's very annoying to turn off the default servers.It was pretty easy to set up my own server for it, though I will say that for a long time it had some truly abhorrent network delays when used over tor, and the client had some kind of graphics fuckup that made it slow as balls when run through my firejail config.On the other hand you got good ol' XMPP. Many server and client implementations, established open standards, all open source stuff. There is OMEMO e2ee and servers have SSL. You may be better off setting up your own XMPP server and calling it a day. In environments like that there is an element of heterogeneity that makes it hard to backdoor everything at once too, like I get my Gajim updates over a linux package manager and the server gets them over a different one, all signed and all implemenations run by different people, way fewer dependencies than Simplex. Whereas with simplex it's all pretty much managed by a single team.Plus as >>106570747 it has a weird UI. We want UIs that look like hexchat or something not... that. I would even go as far as to say that the UI and web style that they use to try to give you the professional look is exactly the thing that gives it honeypot vibes.
