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The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Why do people like Matrix? It's really slow. Even most of the non-Electron clients consume a ton of resources (even more than Electron apps usually do).
Especially Gomuks, by far the worst offender. It consumes nearly a gigabyte of memory and it's a TUI.
I think it more comes down to it not being Discord than people liking it.
Well, it's not privacy-focused.. but I do like Revolt for this purpose. It's performant, looks very similar to Discord, and I think they're adding E2EE eventually.
It is centralized and the moderation suck. They banned people for being homophobic because they said they were Christian. You can find more information online.
I attempted to find evidence to support this.
I found one reddit post claiming this, but they themselves did not provide any evidence.
Not exactly the most compelling piece of evidence, and this was all I could find.
I can't find it now but there was a person who was banned for saying the were Christian. They didn't say anything more and the could as well been LGBQ+. There were a few other instances that I am forgetting of bad moderation.
Anyway the centralized nature of Revolt Chat makes it no very appealing for me.
I agree with this. I will probably stick with either matrix or xmpp due, to their federated nature, and strong E2EE. Matrix is a better discord replacement, as it has more features, is more standardized, has a better web client, and has "spaces", which are somewhat analogous to discord servers.
Xmpp however, is much more lightweight on both servers and clients than matrix, and it's E2EE works more reliably (none of that "failed to decrypt nonsense), and makes a better E2EE messenger.
It is selfhostable though, so moderation would be an issue of individual servers rather than the whole thing.
The problem is that no one will use your server
The issue has historically been with the server. (It was buggy as hell) These days it is much more stable and less prone to collapse.
I don't like Matrix because it gives a option to not encrypt communications. Encryption should be enforced and transparent
Also doesn't force e2ee
Matrix sucks but emojis :3