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Due to popular demand, we've added @session to our best chat app recommendations.

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Which one is your favorite❓


Best Private Alternatives to WhatsApp | Our Top 6

'Review of the best alternatives to WhatsApp: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX.'
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  • Signal (79%, 422 votes)
  • Threema (13%, 71 votes)
  • Session (7%, 38 votes)
531 voters. Poll end: 8 months ago

@Session
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Ruben
Ruben
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Threema is defenitely my favorite, but most of my contacts turn easier to Signal, so I use both.
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tallship
tallship
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Exposing my DID and then farming my contact database so it can tell me when people I know sign up for #Signal (and Vice Verse - it tells people who have your DID in their contact database when you're a signal user too) is an egregious invasion of my privacy!!!

I do understand that Signal has been working to get rid of the #DID requirement, and received notification of such a day or so ago, but there's still a bad taste left in my mouth for encroachments.

#tallship

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#signal #tallship #did
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Adam Lein
Adam Lein
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ChatMail servers with DeltaChat clients should be on that list. github.com/deltachat/chatmail You could even make Tuta compatible with that by implementing Autocrypt and QR code counterMITM key sharing.

GitHub - deltachat/chatmail: chatmail service deployment scripts and docs

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to deltachat/chatmail development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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Hristo Hristov
Hristo Hristov
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I'm not reposting Session, and there are several reasons. It's been filled with various bugs from the start. There is always some problem. Session is blockchain based and runs with CPU time on the backend to hog their blockchain network. It is based in Australia after all.
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Jean VOGUET Composer
Jean VOGUET Composer
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@simplex
#**SimpleX**
simplex.chat/

SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
simplex.chat
@SimpleX Chat
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SilSinn9821＠
SilSinn9821＠
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Me when I use none of those apps, preferring instead Matrix (which I rarely use) & Telegram (which I frequently use).
@session
@Session
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Professor Code
Professor Code
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Although it's a close call between Signal and Threema for me, I chose Threema because you don't need the Google Play Store to install it.

You can buy a license through their store and install it via F-Droid (or as an APK file). Threema Desktop also provides both DEB and RPM packages for Linux, whereas Signal Desktop is a hassle to install (unless we use the unofficial Flatpak).

Session is a great private messenger, but the UI/UX is barebones and not all that great.

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