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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't want WhatsApp & I avoid the 'stores, so it's F-Droid options for me...

Any opinions on Jami?

I'm also seeing XMPP mentioned in the comments, so I might look at that a bit more...

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Saving you the bother, Signal is good, but requires phone number and the desktop client sucks, while the generally recommended federated FOSS things are all over-engineered and morally obsolete. One can't rework XMPP into a modern standard, and it's complex. Actually Signal's authors have published a couple of articles explaining their choices in making it.

[–] thekerker@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Signal is good, but requires phone number

There are ways around that

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I found SimpleX Chat to be a fairly decent alternative without phone numbers.