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The corporate press wouldn’t ever tell the good parts of nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828

I use Simplex to speak with survivors of human trafficking, DV and SA for work. I don’t particularly trust many other ways of communicating with survivors privately. There are many abusers in positions of power, law enforcement, governments, entertainment, intelligence agencies, gangs etc. I use Simplex to protect the survivors as much as possible and myself. I had to learn the hard way while serving multiple survivors of Epstein-Maxwell as an advocate how important tools like Simplex can be. I’m sure that you can imagine given the news as of late that survivors need tools like Simplex right now more than ever. Survivors are often hacked, stalked, threatened into silence and harassed. Survivors deserve privacy and strong encryption.

I don’t know who else uses the app but I wanted to share how I use it and why.

SimpleX is private only now while small, and that is changing now that they have VC funding. The fact is that you are using their servers and their client, therefore trusting but not verifying that communications are truly private.

There is really no guarantee that the server you are trusting is running the same code as available on github.

Oddly enough nostr is more private, since there exist so many server implementations and hundreds of servers to choose from. Gets difficult to pin IP address and messages are no possible to decrypt since too many separate tools are involved.

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I compile my own client myself ... off their codebase yes but there's an intermediate step.

Also I don't use their servers not sure what makes you think so.

Well, good for you.

Now let's look at how 99.9% of the other users are doing.

Perhaps it would be better to focus on that audience, asking them to use something with less potential for being bought by some intelligence agency that throws money at them rather than going through all those hops that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve (and this is a generous percentage value).

> that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve

Ah well that's too bad then really.