Signal kind of… Well. What do you fellow lemmings use? I am interested in you.
Besides the ones already mentioned: Threema
Signal.
More specifically the Molly fork on the phone, Signal on Desktop
What differentiates Molly from Signal?
I wish more people would move to Matrix with me, so far only my partner did. But that’s good enough.
Did you self host it or find a community?
No, I chose a public server with decent connection speed. I was lazy. 👻
I’m using Molly, the hardened fork of Signal that doesn’t use any google services these days. GrapheneOS introduced it via their app store…called App Store.
Everyone I know except my immediate family uses Signal at least to talk to me.
did you get Molly from App Store or from Accrescent (which can be grabbed from the GrapheneOS App Store)?
Oh yeah, you’re right. Store-ception
it really is. both are such minimal stores, as well.
I mostly wanted to be sure, as I understand there are 2 differing Molly packages and wasn’t sure if there was maybe some way to extend the default Grapheme app store, etc.
Signal, i know its now perfect, but its easy to get normal folks over there. I’m just happy I don’t have to use WhatsApp anymore.
Email, usually thunderbird or k9 these days. For online chat I have a small nextcloud server but I rarely use it for that.
You might like to check out DeltaChat.
I’ve used matrix for years but now moved to Xmpp and simplex
Xmpp only works on highspeed mobile data… Or is that my clients fault?
I’ve not encountered that issue. For reference I’m using prosody self-hosted and monocles on android (dino on Linux)
Trying to get people to use signal. People don’t care about ideals or principles or future problems, so it’s a difficult sell.
Yeah so annoying. My actually real friends moved for me, the other ones I cut ties with.
SchildiChat + Element (Matrix)
Self-hosted, federated Matrix instance with wife, kids and even my old folks on it, yay! Even have video conferencing self-hosted on there. Telegram presence via mautrix-telegram bridge also there. Nheko on desktop and Element X on mobile. Fearing every Postgres update as it’s an Arch server, other than that life’s peachy.
Still on IRC (Libera) for shits and giggles with weechat.
Same. With a signal and WhatsApp Bridge
One group of friends went to signal. One group of friends stays in SMS.
I don’t really have the ability to dictate the messaging service app to others.
