Hello everyone,

I have discovered SimpleX Chat (nothing to do with XChat or HexChat, or the favorite letter of some dumb billionaire), and it appears being a legit good effort at providing good privacy while retaining “mainstream” usability.

And it has been audited (by one company so far, it seems).

The only concern I have is with regards to battery life (given that it has to maintain roughly as many open connections as you have contacts, AFAICT).

Has anyone here used it? Any opinion?

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s pretty good and I use it a fair amount. Sometimes messages don’t order correctly when they are sent and your client is off, so be sure to reply to the messages you are talking about so the order is clear. I prefer Briar, but it doesn’t work for some people due to a lack of iPhone app.

  • Piecemakers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    … So, is no one going to point out that, “simplex” is also the latter half of “herpes simplex”? 🤢🤦🏼‍♂️

    edit: downvote all you want (reddit habits are hard to break, it seems), but the usage of Simplex in commercial product lines seems to have fallen out of favor by the mid-1900s… Conspicuously similar to the timing of said STI rampaging through the US population. Couldn’t possibly be related, though. (see: link below)

  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I find it weird and sad that they only announce their mobile apps on the main page. You’d have to go to their Github and only then see that they also have a desktop client. I personally don’t mind it being terminal-only, but I see how people could have an issue with there being no GUI. I just find it disrespectful. I don’t personally use it (I am mostly on IRC and XMPP), but this just caught my attention.

    • o_k@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Well the desktop gui is still in beta (literally less than a week old, iirc). So I wouldn’t expect it being on the website until it’s fully functional. (And it’s a GUI desktop client now)

      • anotherlemmyuser@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Update: The frontpage now has a line that says “Get SimpleX desktop app”, above various mobile app stores links. Have to head to downloads page, still on the website itself, for desktop, mobile and terminal options.