Matrix / Element or XMPP.
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Jami you can sign up with without a phone and it's also open source.
XMPP is always the answer, stable, easy to host, many clients and you can stick with some non-paid servers if you need.
Yea but it leaks metadata
Source?
You are using Briar. If you find privacy very important then Briar is a very good choice. Signal is not such a great choice, see for example here : https://lemmy.ml/post/55595 And there is more against Signal : https://lemmy.ml/search/q/signal/type/All/sort/TopAll/page/1
Stick to briar, or try TOX for a while
XMPP + Matrix
You can try session messenger. it uses onion routing.
Do you know were I can find good info about good privacy practices to use TOR?
it depends on who you are trying to share messages with and what works between you and them. if you are on Android, i would check the fdroid store.
What about Wickr ?
Threema costs about 4€ and works without a phone number. It's currently not open source but they are planning to go open source. They're based in Switzerland. I don't know enough about meta data leaking but at least they're aware of it.
Just checking : https://threema.ch/en/faq/source_code Yes, to ensure full transparency, the Threema apps are open source. Thanks to reproducible builds, there’s also a way to verify that the published code (of the Android app, for the time being) actually corresponds to the apps available for download in the app stores.
Oh that's good. Last time I remembered/checked they weren't but good that they're now.
threema client is open source
If you want to do it without the metadata leaking, maybe use element through tor, that's basically the best case for matrix right now. What about jami and the alternative? As long as it's not peer to peer, I don't think it really matters, your metadata will definitely leak. Maybe session could be the answer but it's still relatively young and need to mature a bit more.