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Encrypted messaging recommendations. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by pineapple@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, I am looking for an encrypted messaging service to start using and recommending to my friends and family, I really want to get this right the first time. At the moment I'm looking at using matrix I really like it's bridges and federated nature, Although I'm not 100% sure about it's ux.

What I want to ask is what messaging service do you use and do you have any regrets with it? What encrypted messaging service would you recommended?

Edit: I just had another question are any of the bridges in matrix end to end encrypted? If person A used matrix and person B used signal could person A use a bridge to talk to person B securely?

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[–] Gayhitler@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah and even if you’re on an ios with rcs plenty of old android devices just scale the videos down to postage stamp size anyway by default so you get bad looking pictures no matter what.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here RCS is not even supported on most carriers, and aapparently on some phone models as well (some Chinaphones I think).

[–] Gayhitler@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It’s just as well, rcs in America only has guarantees of features if you’re on the same servers as the other people, so there’s a big split between the Samsung and google rcses with all kinds of weird mixed media stuff if you’re both on gchat or the Samsung fork and nothing but maybe higher resolution pictures if you’re not.

It’s part of why I’m so willing to recommend imessage because for better or worse in America it’s the defacto standard.