Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg, and Bill Gates VC is behind #SimpleX? 😅 are we sure about the direction this is headed?
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seriously?!
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor
Do you have a link to confirm this? 🐶🐾🫡
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor listed
Thank you! 🐶🐾🫡🫂
Just for posterity, here is the link to VC’s site! 🐶🐾🫡
Thank you! So what do you think?
All this things usually start innocent, but we never know where it may lead. Since it is open source, I am less concerned. 🐶🐾🫡
But it does make me wonder even more about the app name 😅
nostr:npub1umm38u66zkvr7gw0j9juzxr3xxl8x9kunf5ctlp4uhms80s87l9st8sr83 has some theories 😂
lol hmm… hopefully nothing world-domination-y 🤣
It was confirmed by esp himself 👍
It's fully open source and anyone can run their own server, it's legit.
what if you aren't running your own server? I just downloaded the app
The default servers are all through Tor which also gives good privacy assurances.
You can use my server, many Nostriches are on it
smp://QkpDEFx-YSXMDQQ4N-9D7MPo5D1uglgY4aVFvRw5Zzo=@smp.utxo.one
Thanks that's very generous.
Is it wise to join just anyone's server or should one use discretion?
What are the risks?
I have a knowledge gap here! Thank you!
I’d love to know more about this as well 👀
I don't know enough to say for sure, but as far as I can tell servers can't see your messages or metadata even if they tried, that said I only use servers from other Nostriches, nostr:npub1y3uh89v5a4vq92t8q0j6su94zhvcdxpywjn3l6hpsr5welarqtrqj7yzhd runs one too which I use
Frfr?
Source?
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor
link to villageglobal:
I’m surprised this is coming out now I would’ve thought they would say when making the product
bad PR for the due to complete lack of alignment in goals on the user and the funding side
apologies for the shocking grammar, kept on rephrasing it to get my point across better
Nobody noticed but you 😉 🫂💜
i’m big on bettering my grammar and increasing my vocabulary, as it helps me describe my thoughts in more detail 💜
so i’m kinda tough on myself with that 😅🫂
🤣🤣 I thought it was perfectly worded
y’all are too kind, just let me be tough on myself and have high standards, will you? 🤣💜
Is English your first language?
most definitely not, surprised that people haven’t picked up on that already 😅💜
Haha.. Oh what a winner..
But I was sure it was..
So it's not my English others do make a mess as well.. 😂😂😉💕
🤲Semble dominante alors qu'il devrait pas l'être compte des +8 millards d'invidus sur cétte🌎
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m curious on your thoughts about this
it’s open-source code where you can verify what you’re using so i don’t think it really matters
Who’s going to verify it though? Do you really trust those ppl have good intentions?
Trail of bits completed a full code audit last year. Malicious or just poor code can still get added in after that but one would hope that security focussed maintainers would have their eye on this sort of thing.
I was just reading about a few different cases where crypto projects got audited and they still got hacked.
It's impossible to guarantee security. It's possible that the audits were shoddy, that the devs added malicious code intentionally or unintentionally post audit or that there was just some new exploit.
Ultimately the money invested from the glowing sources paid for a fairly reputable firm to audit the code but secure comms is always going to be a target.
Of all ppl that could’ve invested, those are some of the most sus possible. Maybe they’re just being good guys but come on lol.
XMPP is open source code, with open standards and many implementations... And decades track record
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WTF?
This one is interesting.
Wait, what?
good eye haha
I keep an open mind until proven that it’s time to pivot.
n July 2022 SimpleX Chat raised a pre-seed funding from the VC fund Village Global - its co-founder Ben Casnocha was very excited about our vision of privacy-first fully decentralized messaging and community platform, both for the individual users and for the companies, independent of any crypto-currencies, that might grow to replace large centralized platforms, such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
https://simplex.chat/blog/20230422-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v5-videos-files-passcode.html
Village Global is here:
C'est terrible ces financeurs qu'on devrait leur motivation...c'est co/me l'a ruée vers l'or ave# maîtres du nouveau Monde
The Arcade Labs dev did tell me he doesnt like SimpleX chat implementation so is building his own end-2-end encrypted group chat app. Not sure what he meant by that.
NIP-112
Well Jack promotes it!
and look what happened to twitter - not really a good track record lol!
James, Jack has said multiple times that he has many regrets over Twitter ect
I’m not in his corner by any means, I am just watching from the sidelines however I feel everyone deserves a 2nd chance so let’s see.
I’m still waiting from them to answer that 🤔🤔
nostr:npub1rjwumr7j6tac08t0qttvc44walt549nc4eyyxjc0phn6yxzj7uzq0accc9 Did they answer you?