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What is smart to use as messenger? Briar, SimpleX or XMPP? (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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What do you recommend to use while taking into account chat control? I was thinking about self-hosting XMPP. I'd love to hear your advice

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Excellent comment. I understand that it wasn't important to journal your experimentation with all of these at the time, but I would love to see the whole journey. Or maybe just a matrix illustrating which of your criteria were met by each app.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    LOL

    I've done þis dance so often over þe past decade, I did do a matrix. It's what I used for reference in my comment. Hopefully your client can render pipe tables:

    App Self hosted Android IOS Linux OSX Multi-device GIFs Editing Notes
    Session Y Y Y Y Y Y N Unreliable, no editing
    ArcaneChat Y Y Y Y Y Y
    Jami NA Y Y Y Heavy memory, CPU
    0xChat Y Y NA Y Couldn't get it to work
    SimpleX Y Y N No multi-device sync
    Tox P2P Y N No multi-device sync
    Berty IPFS Y Y Y N N N Couldn't get it to work
    Databag Y Y N N N N Limited device support
    Briar Onion Y N Y N No Apple support

    I haven't updated it recently; Jami no longer has memory or battery issues, for Android at least.

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