SimpleX got good enough I convinced my wife to use it since 1 week ago. It really ressonated the part of "just because you join a group, does not mean the rest of members can stalk, spam and harass you forever".
Simplex Chat v5.4 is released – link mobile and desktop apps via secure quantum resistant protocol.
Also in v5.4:
- Many group improvements:
- faster to join and more reliable. Once you upgrade to v5.4, join the new users' group and find other groups in SimpleX directory.
- create groups with incognito profile.
- block group members to reduce noise.
- Better calls: faster to connect, with screen sharing on desktop.
- Many other fixes and improvements.
Read more in the post: https://simplex.chat/blog/20231125-simplex-chat-v5-4-link-mobile-desktop-quantum-resistant-better-groups.html
Install the apps via downloads page: https://simplex.chat/downloads/
Discussion
How would you compare SimpleX with Session in terms of privacy, security and user experience?
Session has a shitcoin token and uses their own anonimization network instead of tor called lokinet. Besides lokinet's design flaws, the fact that it has a much lower usage compared to Tor gives it a much smaller anon set (crowd to hide inl. To me, Session is the "Brave" of messengers (not in a good way).
Session leaks metadata and your network graph since it reuses the same unique identifier for each user. This is akin to reusing addesses in bitcoin, not very good privacy wise.
SimpleX OTOH has no unique permanent ID, eveything is ephemeral and 1-time use. You can't get spammed just because you joined a group of spammers, since nothing about your account was really leaked by joining that group.
This is all much better explained in simplex.chat
Would love to see it run on i2p as well.
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I can't see why you can't do it right now. The app allows you to use a custom socks5 proxy which you can set to a running i2pd instance (either locally in the phone or in your lan)
You can also expose your own SMP server over i2p.
I might try this later
I use the Brave browser. Which browser do you think is better to use?
Librewolf. Nothing Brave does can't be done better on firefox/librewolf using extensions.
Also checkout https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
My wife also switched to SimpleX when I left all messengers except this one. It's been more than a month of this experience and no complaints from her. SimpleX is becoming more and more friendly, that's for sure.