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?

  • dragonX@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    Matrix is the most promising project in my opinion even though privacy was at the beginning an afterthought. we need as a community to keep pressure on the devs to minimize metadata collection.
    For a trial you can sign up to the matrix.org server. just keep in mind to switch to another one once you decide to make matrix your daily driver.
    Because matrix.org is the biggest instance, it is subject to a lot of attacks, it has been breached once back when E2EE wasn’t active by default.

    • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      I’ve had a matrix account there before, I’m asking if there’s an instance I could join because I’m aware that using matrix.org would probably not be the best idea since the whole point of it is to be decentralized, and metadata and identity is collected there.

      I found this instance though https://chat.tchncs.de/

      for now I’ll use that instead, maybe I’ll run a matrix server in the future for people to use.