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Matrix should be first choice over Telegram and Discord communities!

Also, Simplex before Signal

A mention of Qubes in section 11 would be nice although appreciate it could be out of scope of a first steps guide

It's so hard to migrate people ... network effects Took me a while but now almost all my pals using signal. If I come with Simplex which looks "weird" with no number phone, going to be even harder

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I had the exact same problem (migrating everyone to Signal, now a new app that isn't such a nice UX)

Moving away from having dependence on a phone number is really important though

Don't give up :-)

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Unfortunately Matrix has many issues with usability that still prevent it from being a go-to for many communities, but I definitely agree (and host my communities on Matrix despite the issues).

Definitely more of personal preference there now, amazed at how far SimpleX has come! It's actually a legitimate Signal contender in my book now.

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what are the Matrix issues you face? We use it as a Teams alternative in our organisation and it works great

Mind you, that's mostly with internal users on our hosted instance

Simplex is amazing!

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I love SimpleX, but it's still missing desktop client.

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I don't agree, I think it should be Briar for anything that doesn't require more than sharing text or images.

I've heard some concearning things about Matrix but take me with a grain of salt

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