Knowing what a privacy nightmare all meta apps are, I’m wondering if there is an alternative option which is more privacy friendly but still has some of the ease and simplicity of some features such as messenger.

I already know there will be friends I can’t convince and thats fine, I may just have to accept that. But if I could avoid using it as much, I’d really like to.

  • @Bassman1805
    10•13 days ago

    Decent privacy focused messaging app isn’t difficult. Signal and Telegram are the biggest ones.

    Convincing people to join it is the hard part. There’s no shortcut there.

    • troed
      18•13 days ago

      Telegram is Russian spyware and has no security whatsoever by default.

      Signal is good. Matrix is good.

      • @[email protected]
        6•13 days ago

        *has no end-to-end encryption by default.

        Also, they used to really suck at encryption back in the days, and haven’t really earned my trust back.

        • troed
          7•13 days ago

          … and no encryption of groups.

          It’s a huge Russian psy-op where they pretended Durov had to go into exile while he in reality cooperated with the regime.

          • @[email protected]
            1•13 days ago

            I fully agree, but I would be extremely surprised if they didn’t have transport encryption. Just no E2E, meaning that anyone who can get access to or impersonate the servers can read all your messages.