I’ve been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I’m a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can’t say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I’m not very familiar with them.
So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?
EDIT: In addition to my post:
All messengers have their flaws, I’m well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users’ opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly, sorry for that.
Conversations for android is an example of a good XMPP client.
Motal is participating in GSoC this year to get some new features too.
But this is a wider issue that developing free software for Apple products is way too expensive (time & money) to be feasible while also going against the general free software ethos. It should be no surprise the walled garden of a proprietary OS that charges you to publish to their store has a severe lack of free or otherwise ethical software (which is important for security for something as important as a messaging app full of private data).
