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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I agree the only thing with Signal is it needs a phone number, but the protocol that is solid. Its more practical to have people switch to signal from whatsapp in my opinion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Signal is working on a solution for that, I believe, I read something about Usernames, but I can be wrong...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

There is getsession.org it's signal crypto but decentralized and whitout phone number

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

But element.io (matrix) is really powerfull with some bridge to other chat

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

I didn't know about this one, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Is the only advantage that you don't need a phone number? If so, how does it compare against Wire (which is IMO a nearly perfect solution)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Delta Chat is an EMail client with steroids that aims to build a specification (Chat over IMAP) to adapt the infraestructure even more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Thanks, got it. Is a good idea. I'll start following it.

Do all the email servers have to make changes to support it? Dies the IMAP standard have to change to support it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Great option. Session is even more private, but a bit laggy. What's missing is end-to-end encrypted voip.