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Wow, I think this basically makes Session obsolete.

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SimpleX having PFS while Session not having it also seals the deal.

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agreed, i liked that session had out of the box alternative routing, but a basic vpn + simplex’s new private routing knocks down one of my final gripes with the app.

although, i guess my only other gripe now is that using your simplex profile on both desktop and phone is either hard as shite or totally impossible.

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using your simplex profile on both desktop and phone

Why would that be hard?

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go try it

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Why is Simplex based. Damn this is cool.

However, I do wish they would adopt a more decentralized approach like Jami and Briar. It is very hard to get right but it has so many benifits.

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Yea, my main concern for now is that most people are using default servers. Good thing their servers are very easy to host, but still, power of the default. I would really like to see lists of public servers, like what we see now for XMPP and Matrix. The thing is still young, so looking forward.

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I just self host

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I self-host too, that wasn’t the problem, it’s that there is the power of the default. Just like with Matrix. You can ask a friend to use your server or another one and delete the main ones entirely, but chances are you won’t be avoiding them in a random chatroom.

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Any libre software with voice chat more decentralised than this?

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jami maybe

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I wonder what would happen if you host a server but block the domains of the central ones, asking everyone you chat with to use other servers instead.

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You don’t think that XMPP clients are better, like conversations or others?

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XMPP as a protocol was great. But the problems the servers had, the mess is just a no go. SimpleX is far better in privacy and usability in my opinion. I doubt XMPP will recover anytime soon.

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And with its own server?

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Most important part of the blog post:

We are planning a 3rd party security audit for the protocols and cryptography design in July 2024, and also the security audit for an implementation in December 2024/January 2025, and it would hugely help us if some part of this $50,000+ expense is covered with donations.

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