11 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 3 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Why Everyone Should Care About Privacy tech
I haven't got around to trying SimpleX chat yet. On my list. I keep hearing people recommend it. Based on what I have heard it sounds really good. The phone number requirement with Signal is a problem. Signal is one of the few secure options I've been able to get people in my life to use though.
Give it a try!
^^ It got the early onboarding problem, as usual for these kinds of things, before the networking effect reached enough critical mass.
Best early use cases I can come to think of is:
*Journalism
*Family chats
*Telegram replacement
Not needing to exchange personal contact info is great, and profiles within the app makes it safe to publicly share contact info without fear of spamming. Here I created a contact link for sharing on stacker news: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FenEkec4hlR3UtKx2NMpOUK_K4ZuDxjWBO1d9Y4YXVaA%3D%40smp14.simplex.im%2FvO9SwJHDbMb5lq-XPhMLFkH90Vf_F3_d%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEA15UhLUQOh2PRlLqT13PuG-aZtch6NUcSh56W-S46Q3c%253D%26srv%3Daspkyu2sopsnizbyfabtsicikr2s4r3ti35jogbcekhm3fsoeyjvgrid.onion
The long links I think look a bit scary to normies, but it is what it is. If I want to have another share link for another context, I can fix that within the app without dealing with new account registrations etc.
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