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Subject: a new chat app in town
From: Ogg
Newsgroups: DOVE-Net.Internet
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 13:12 UTC

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Subject: a new chat app in town
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From another channel..

On 9/4/2022 2:37 PM, Phil Lejman wrote:

For those who like to check out new encrypted chat clients, here's another one:

SimpleX Chat
Private & encrypted - the only platform without user identifiers!

https://simplex.chat/

Phil

OK. A friend was anxious to try it, so I installed it. About 50MB download for my Android device. Friend's android version was too old for the general app, but his linux laptop supported the text (CLI) version. His install for the laptop was only 25MB.

To my surprise the operation/presentation is not like in the website animations at all. It's just like Telegram or Briar or Session on my phone.

But unlike Session or Briar, there is a Re-Edit option for messages. It even allows posting/sharing image files. It also has a live voice-call feature (but I was unable to try it cuz my friend's laptop was not set up with sound.) In any case, it would seem like a fine way to make a private/encrypted voice call.

Like Briar/Session, it allows groups.

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Subject: a new chat app in town
From: Arelor
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 21:13 UTC
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Re: a new chat app in town
By: Ogg to All on Mon Sep 05 2022 09:12 am

>
> Like Briar/Session, it allows groups.
>

Does it support audioconferences? It doesn't look like it.

Probably worth a look. E2E encrypted audio is kind of scarce, at least with
implementations that don't suck.

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Subject	Author
a new chat app in town	Ogg
a new chat app in town	Arelor