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Is there a competitor to Signal that blows it out of the water for usability, adoption and privacy? Do we want one? Nostr based?
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jb55 2y ago

Some damus peoples used Session but I couldn’t get it working on macos #[2]

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elsat 2y ago

#[5]​ was working on some form of encrypted messaging, not sure how much nostr related

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Alejandro Muyshondt 2y ago

Yes! We can give #Nostr our Encryption method for free... We have it on GitHub, if someone wants to see the source code, just let us know.

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Terry Yiu 2y ago

Session works pretty well for me on iOS and macOS. Most of the Damus translations team is on there. Not sure why Will had issues. But it seems great — no need for a phone number or email address. It’s all based on generated IDs. Your IP address is hidden and messages are routed through multiple nodes across a decentralized network. There’s support for attaching images, voice, GIFs, emoji reactions, disappearing messages. There’s some message retention limits if someone joins a group chat much later on than when the group chat first got created. Overall, it seems as good as Signal.

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Terry Yiu 2y ago

Oh, if you look at Session’s GitHub, their clients were directly forked from Signal.

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nokey 2y ago

Back when I tried it, a couple of years ago (?) I suffered loss of messages. Maybe in a group, maybe not. Has this happened to you?

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Gregor 2y ago

Perhaps because it has no Apple Silicon native desktop client. I asked the team about making the iPad app available through Catalyst, and the want to look into it, but it will take time.