I’ve been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I’m a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can’t say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I’m not very familiar with them.

So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?

EDIT: In addition to my post:

All messengers have their flaws, I’m well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users’ opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly, sorry for that.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    323·
    2 months ago

    So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix

    yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      7·
      2 months ago

      From what I’ve seen there’s a lot of very bad security advice out there with even tech journalists and such just straight up repeating stuff they don’t understand

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1016·
      2 months ago

      These reasons are serious and valid. That’s why I provided links, so as not to be unsubstantiated.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 months ago

        This whole subject is such a chestnut here. No messaging option is perfect, you will need to compromise. If a perfect option existed you would have heard of it already. And if you haven’t heard of it, then by definition it must be small with few users and even fewer maintainers to keep an eye on its codebase and security, which is risky in itself.

        • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          All messengers have their flaws, I’m well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users’ opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly though, sorry for that.