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Signal, qTox or riot.im?
| I recommend all of them as they're free and open source, so try 'em! Tox was very easy to use and set up though.
| Is there any critisism on one tho?
Or does it really not matter which to choose because they are all top of the line?
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Oh, Tox definitely has its downsides (which can be seen as upsides). The clients all heavily vary in features and have various ranges of completeness. Some support more things than others and vice verca. Kind of a mess, though it's been a while since I last tried it (was Antox).
Muh decentralized software basically. Works for basic chatting though (^:
| bump
| Riot.im is bloated client for Matrix protocol. Uses Electron as GUI engine, is half-proprietary and sends telemetry. Don't be a snowflake and Use XMPP. Any client supporting OTR is sufficient, don't fall for OMEMO meme. Signal is centralized CIA honeypot that advertizes itself with buzzwords for techies and by porting their shitty crypto to WhatsApp and similar proprietary messaging apps.
| Go with qtox or utox. The downside is, tox leaks your up to people on other side of the chat. But for me is a non issue. I just wanna talk to friends without getting my data marketed to advertisers and made profit off of.
| Well, it depends on your threat model.
Signal is confirmed to be the most secure at the moment but in order to use it you have to connect your phone number (and give it to others) which might be a problem for some people.
Riot is still in beta, use at your own risk.
There is also Wire which is a good alternative to Signal as you can register with your email address.
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| Just heard about riot.im the first time
So I wanted to ask which of those 3 messengers could you recommend?
Signal was recommended by Snowden.
qTox was recommended by a bunch of internet ppl and you don't need to provide personal information.
And riot.im was recommended in another thread here.
Please give me all information you have on those programms, thanks <3