You don't understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn't really another choice.
You don't understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.
You don't understand, we CAN'T be on f-droid.
You don't understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.
Did I miss anything?
https://simplex.chat/
Self hostable as well
Yep.
Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.
Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don't even want to argue with them anymore.
Can IRC even be encrypted?
Yeah, for... Decades?
I got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us
I was like if I'm gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol
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You don't understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn't really another choice.
You don't understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.
You don't understand, we CAN'T be on f-droid.
You don't understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.
Did I miss anything?
https://simplex.chat/
Self hostable as well
Yep.
Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.
Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don't even want to argue with them anymore.
Can IRC even be encrypted?
Yeah, for... Decades?
I got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us
I was like if I'm gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol