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The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024
(blog.thenewoil.org)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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[Matrix/Element]Dead
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Sure -- but how many of them actually do?
I can throw a few examples:
So, the answer is — almost every of them.
Element X (Matrix client). Basically anything that offers F-Droid or open source release will have builds without built-in notifications. Play Store/App Store builds requires using native notification systems.
But not Signal? I use Signal but I'm not sure I can get my chat groups to use something else.
Signal has a ton of the dependence on proprietary software. You won't find Signal on F-droid.
Best option is Molly foss
I mentioned Molly — Signal fork. It can show notifications via UnifiedPush or websocket.
I just run it in the background. It pulls almost no battery so it is a non issue.
Also getting it to work with Unified push requires extra effort.
Yeah, configuring a mollysocket requires at least a little self-hosting knowledge.
I would do the same but it uses too much battery for me so I had to figure out how to self-host ntfy and mollysocket.
Briar just says x private messages
Conversations does not. Its only optionally available for those really shitty phones that otherwise can't get notifications at all.
Ah, I got it backwards, sorry.