I’ve been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I’m a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can’t say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I’m not very familiar with them.

So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?

EDIT: In addition to my post:

All messengers have their flaws, I’m well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users’ opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly, sorry for that.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    152·
    27 days ago

    Use Signal or Simplex.

    Signal does require a phone number. However, as long as you understand what that means you are fine.

    • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      27 days ago

      Would recommended SimpleX over Signal if you want the “best”, but for users that are pretty new to this maybe Signal