i've just seen a comment in a post, in this very community, saying people trust signal because of missinformation (from what i could undertand).
if this is true, then i have a few questions:
-what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.
-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?
-what this means for other apps in general?
Signal is the best "easy" alternative. And DIY leaves many holes for rookie errors.
Do explain what makes it better than SimpleX Chat?
My contact coulds find me by phone number. I changes my status on WhatsApp and half of the regular contacts decided to use Signal. If I want to use SimpleX I would have to invite them all and just hope they'll adopt.
I don't need my phone number to be private. I want my communication to be private.
You deciding to invite your contacts to Signal isn't really Signal being better though.
Better at connecting with the people in my life, the people that I want to stay in touch with on a regular basis.
Would love to use SimpleX too, but the plan fell apart while trying to use it with family. Surprisingly many people fail to grasp the concept of anything other than a phone number, social media profile, or email address. It fell apart among my more tech-savvy friends because we missed calls and had delayed notifications despite SimpleX eating through the battery like no other messaging app.
No doubt, SimpleX is the concept of a messaging app done right and could be better than any other. It's just the implementation that needs work. But I'd be happy to hear if there's any optimizations I could try and revisit it.
It's an easy alternative. It took me a decade to get my friends to download a second app