I see i can find a foss version on f-droid, and that’s something not a lot of social networks can have, i don’t really like all the crypto bullshit and ads testing they’ve been up to lately, but still looks better to me compared to what Reddit have done lately or what other platforms have done in these years…

I don’t know about their privacy feature, but i wouldn’t trust their chat as for as far as i knew they were not end to end encrypted some time ago (except for secret chats).

Anyway it still looks like one of the at least still decent platforms out there, or am i wrong?

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    Telegram is neither private nor secure. Its not encrypted bu default. Normal texts as well as group chat is stored unencrypted on its servers.

    For everyday use with friends, family and work (assuming these folks already have your number), Signal may be the best thing out there as its open source both on server and app levels. Signal is also end to end encrypted (E2EE) with decryption keys stored on device.

    For anonymous communications Session and SimpleX may be better as they are both E2EE and doesnt requie a phone number as an identifier.

    Just chuck out Whatsapp, Telegram and all the other closed sourced garbage apps.

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      Signal is also end to end encrypted (E2EE) with decryption keys stored on device.

      And how decryption key gets to other device 👀?

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      Signal is also end to end encrypted (E2EE) with decryption keys stored on device.
      And how decryption key gets to other device 👀?