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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Does anyone use SimpleX chat? Why or why not? Is it actually tangibly better for privacy than say, Signal, for example? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I use it and yes, it is quite noticeably better.

Connecting to somebody new with a new pseudonym is completely possible by just tapping one switch in the share screen.

Plus, you don't need a phone number which does generally require at least some personally identifiable information to obtain

Do be aware though, your database is an incredibly important file. If you lose your database or lose the password to your database, you are completely screwed just as if you lost cryptocurrency. Those accounts are burned forever because you will never have the keys to generate those accounts again.