Great. Now I have 5 lightning wallets and 6 encrypted chat apps.
It’s great to have options and new innovative solutions, but man, we gotta get this simplified… 😮💨
Discussion
What’s best encrypted chat app?
I’ve been enjoying Keet personally. But Keychat seems to be a contender
Keychat is really promising. Native cashu is a good sign of who gets it
Keychat uses servers so it will never replace WhatsApp, where as keet can today replace it effortlessly
It’s open source no? WhatsApp isn’t.
Keet is 90% open with a commitment to open the rest next year when they come out of beta. Currently unlike WhatsApp keet has no user costs, no need to find money for growth so no need to sell data etc. Keet is fundamentally different than any big tech app in existence, it seeks to completely change the dynamics of the existing tech industry removing the need for data centers and heavy backhaul use
Have you stopped using SimpleX? I don't see a link in your bio.. I'm using primal
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ for comparison.
More options are good to prevent a centralized point of failure.
If we all rely on one service if that one service goes down then it becomes a chokehold.
I know that, I agree. But just would love to narrow it in a wee bit
I mean in all honesty, I think signal historically has been considered the best one.
Main issue is phone # sign up.
Right. Hate that
I use signal for IRL friends, and family only since they'd probably have my phone number anyways.
For online strangers I used simpleX but now I don't know if anyone else is going to use it now 🙃.
Signal rolled out a feature to connect with others via a username last year which is a step in the right direction. Better for connecting with those you don't want to share your number with.
Is there a collective nostr app that has self custodial lighting wallet and encrypted chat in one? Maybe too much to ask for high end features like streaming and p2p store to be built in as well but we can dream right haha
Closest thing would be nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8 I think. But it’s not a lighting node it utilizes cashu
