A genuine discussion about the best FLOSS decentralized system to share poop emojis and videocall your dog.
I would use simplex if there was a desktop client. I like Signal because I can use it across all my devices.
The desktop client is in beta right now. I should go public by next week for all platforms save windows. Windows is planned for about a week later. However, in the first phase, there will be no account syncing (but it’s on the roadmap). So you will need one account for each device, which is fine imho, since you can set up groups instead of 1-on-1 chats to resolve that issue.
It runs well enough in Windows Subsystem for Android!
Right, you can just use an Emulator. If the apk runs on x86 not even that, Waydroid on Linux works natively
Another super cool thing about it is that it’s written entirely in Haskell!
Im not a fan of no identifiers. Sure simplex is secure with it but I would like to see something like simplex that uses 24 word seed phrases to generste millions of unique identifiers the user can easily backup and restore from a piece of paper and not from a digital backup file.
Simplex chat isn’t really decentralized. This makes it simpler at the cost of centralization
It’s not P2P, but it definitely is decentralized, as in anyone can set up a server:
This!
