Post #984

Instant messaging apps review I tested a lot & mulled on this for a while. Our goal was something less centralized, more private & harder to take down or block. BRIAR is good & with p2p modes to be censorship resistant if internet is cut, but you have to invite each user separately to a group which is a pain XMPP is archaic & behaves like a traditional one to one messenger. Yes, groups are there but are more like texting groups & you can't tag or reply to anyone directly. MATRIX is better but ends up being 3rd party centralized because hosting yourself is a hog, which means you're bound by that hosted server & all those rules, giving up your email credentials, getting possibly kicked off, etc. Matrix.org server started requiring email verification for instance. Matrix doesn't encrypt metadata, your IP is visible to others in chats. The last 2 require a hosted server somewhere for large groups to function properly, and so does SESSION since it too has no servers of it's own. But its way lighter than Matrix & can be hosted on a mediocre VPS (which I've done, I can pay, its cheap its fine). The added benefit of Session is everything is onion routed automatically, and there's zero identifying factors when creating an ID. No phone numbers, no emails, nothing. Restore that ID on a new device using a cryptic passphrase, or start a new one if you want. Check out @Nogoolag room with SESSION: http://chat.nogoolag.com/nogoolag?public_key=53b45de08520eb3af97933e9a4991e74e26972ee91cc94e6a05da03d956d4313 #im#session