Simplex seems interesting. Haven’t heard of them. What’s their business model?
How’s the user experience been?
I encourage you to checkout https://simplex.chat as well
TSB has a group chat you can join. Simplex doesn’t even have usernames, frictionless onboarding experience. Has cool features like incognito mode which gives you a new nym for every group you join when it’s turned on, and allows you to run your own relay-like server. They’re rapidly releasing new features as well.
Link to TSB group: https://simplex.tsb.chat
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As far as I can tell they are a FOSS project (AGPLv3) that runs on donations.
User experience when I first started using it about a month ago wasn't great. But they've since shipped a number of improvements and new features which has made the experience much better. Especially in bigger group chats like TSB.
It's a relative new project as I understand it, and is being actively developed, so I'm doing what I can to use and provide feedback (one of main devs is in the TSB chat).
Check out their github repo for more info on the project: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat
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