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
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      7 hours ago

      Have you used it before? I’m curious about how it works. I don’t personally have a use case but it seems very cool.

      • orb360@lemmy.ca
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        4 hours ago

        I have 2 heltec v3 nodes, I setup an encrypted channel between them… I can get good distance but I have a very good network run by others in the area that I piggy back on.

        If you have line of sight you can go pretty far

        I don’t really have much of a use case though, it’s just playing around with the tech for fun.