with all the choices I have, I don’t really know what to choose, there is Matrix, Signal, Briar, Jami, and alot of other privacy focused messenger app that I haven’t even heard of.
need to discuss things with people on the internet, mostly people who already knows privacy stuff.
I need to choose one that’s the most popular one to avoid having people making accounts, what’s the most commonly used (private) messenger app?
No subscription fee for Threema, it is a one time app purchase (3€ I think).
Would not recommend Wire since they got bought by some US hedgefund or so and transferred all operations into the US AFAIK.
IMHO XMPP is in no way worse than element/matrix when it comes to encryption (using the same client everywhere, not a mix of 3rd party clients that in the case of Matrix often even don’t support encryption at all). But lets agree to disagree on that ;)
In matrix we have element that is the most up-to-date feature rich and E2EE supported on every platform. other community developped apps could catch up to element but are not essential for the success of matrix.
In XMPP we don’t have a cross platform compatible app. which could detract a lot of users. my main concern though are features implemented through add-ons. so users have to investigate each instance to make sure they have access to things like encrypted calls. this is a detremental to XMPP wider adoption.