#FOSS folks, question: I’m thinking of making my email and associated services a bit more robust. #protonmail had a good reputation a while back but I haven’t kept up with news. Any reason to avoid it? Good/bad experiences or business practices?

I *know* Linux people will have opinions. Let’s hear them 😁

Revolt against who?

For first world "soft tyranny", session is far better, at least until they add direct Loki connections which they will in the future. Then it will be perfect

For hardcore tyranny right now, session can be taken down at a platform level. For a pure dictatorship with no internet or censored, briar right now has advantage

Sorry to hear that, session has a lot of advantages such as onion routing off tor, and uncensored dns

Showdown!

Signal, Session, SimpleX, Matrix, XMPP, Briar

Who is the...

Most adopted by everyday people:

Signal

Most adopted on darkweb:

XMPP

Most adopted by corporations:

Matrix

Most adopted by militaries:

XMPP

Least Censored for individuals:

Session

Least Censored against platform level bans:

Briar

Most likely to confuse criminal courtrooms:

SimpleX

Best for Journalists:

Session

(due to first contact metadata)

Best for political revolution:

Briar

Most vulnerable to psychological phising:

SimpleX

Most vulnerable to metadata attacks:

Signal

Most vulnerable to backdoor updates:

Signal

Most device-to-device sync issues:

Matrix

Least device-to-device sync issues:

Signal

Most audited:

XMPP

Most centralized network:

Signal

Most decentralized network:

Briar

Most decentralized development:

XMPP

Most misunderstood & untapped potential:

Session

Most likely to grow:

SimpleX

(due to corporate APIs)

My personal favorites:

Session for censorship

SimpleX to hide

XMPP for strangers/friends

Signal for family

(Because good luck getting your grandma on Briar)

Ask me in the comments any new categories or dispute!

Higher quality graphics. Watch something cinematic side by side

Tried Gajim 3y ago, put on "something is missing" list. Don't remember exactly.

There is a lot of jabber features not included in basic specification but via XEPs. Did not find a client that has all required XEPs implemented.

My Controversial Tech Picks:

Mint over Ubuntu

LibreWolf over Brave

MPV over VLC

AnonAddy over SimpleLogin

Session over Telegram/Briar

MetaGer over Duckduckgo

SimpleX over Signal

Gossip over Iris

onlyOffice over LibreWriter

KeePassXC over all mobile 2FA

XMPP over Matrix

Monocles over Conversations

AntennaPod over iTunes

Trocador over exchanges with accounts

Feather over official GUI

Farside over LibRedirect

scp command over NextCloud

KVM Virtmanager over Oracle VirtualBox

And of course, Nostr over Mastodon

Add on to my list with your picks in the comments!

(Or dispute/ask why I made a choice)

XMPP protocol is almost abandonware. Basic specification is pretty poor, everything what you expect from messenger is a part of some extension. Not supported by particular server or not supported by particular client. Or built on extension still in "draft" past 15 years. Even the most used "pidgin" client is not supporting "must have" basic set of extensions.

My Controversial Tech Picks:

Mint over Ubuntu

LibreWolf over Brave

MPV over VLC

AnonAddy over SimpleLogin

Session over Telegram/Briar

MetaGer over Duckduckgo

SimpleX over Signal

Gossip over Iris

onlyOffice over LibreWriter

KeePassXC over all mobile 2FA

XMPP over Matrix

Monocles over Conversations

AntennaPod over iTunes

Trocador over exchanges with accounts

Feather over official GUI

Farside over LibRedirect

scp command over NextCloud

KVM Virtmanager over Oracle VirtualBox

And of course, Nostr over Mastodon

Add on to my list with your picks in the comments!

(Or dispute/ask why I made a choice)