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Is there anything like a SimpleX group chat to join for us to talk, or should one be started?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

SimpleX is not suitable for larger group chats.

XMPP has a few quite popular privacy related public channels: https://search.jabber.network/search?q=privacy

(For those unaware: xmpp participant counts are actively connected users, not like Matrix or Discord that counts who ever joined the room years ago and never came back).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Define larger groups because I know for a fact that it can do chats of up to at least 1,000 people because I'm in two group chats that have that many on SimpleX.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I joined Privacy and Security

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I joined there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why is this not linked in the sidebar?

edit: No matter what one thinks about the privacy aspects of Signal: If its an official discussion group of this community it should be in the sidebar - just like the Discord group. I therefore assume it's unofficial or maybe not even related to this comunity?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

IMO because it’s a Signal group and you can’t separate user profiles and have to register with a phone number (yeah I know I know you have a username now). Some people including me won’t join therefore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don't want to Signal with randoz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Signal does not fully respect your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If by that you mean the Unix time, then yeah, but There has been documents showing that Signal doesn't store sensitive plaintext data.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They force you to give them your phone number. No phone number = not allowed to use Signal. Plus, Signal uses servers from Big Tech (just search for it on reddit).

XMPP (mainly Snikket) is the best lightweight option.