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Briar - a social messaging application without central servers (briarproject.org)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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In my opinion this is the best messager for democracy. For receiving messages while offline you can use Briar mailboxes. I would highly recommend this over many other messagers.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the same username is needed for the trust system.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Since Briar can scan each other's QR code to add a contact, why do you say using the same name with different people make it more trustworthy when you ID can then be recorded or tracked and start to form a web of linking contacts together of who knows who?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Blogs and forms can have people who aren't in your contact list. Also it allows you to introduce two of your contacts together.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, for giving contacts each other's Briar info. That's one f the reasons that I say that SimpleX can never be a total replacement for Signal. People on here push SimpleX hard for privacy and total anonymity and I agree with them, and there's been a few made up fantasies about the people who run Signal, but I see no way to ditch Signal and only have SimpleX and nothing else.

I do discourage Matrix/Element and suggest XMPP instead