I've been inspecting this topic quite a lot and I'm a little confused now. So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix, there were also some claims about Session being a fraught. Briar is mostly activists related (not very suitable for daily use), XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation, SimpleX is too feature-incomplete (no UnifiedPush support, big battery drain on Android, very decent desktop client without any message sync). I can't say a lot about Threema or Wire, as I'm not very familiar with them.

So, my question is — is there any good private messenger at all? What do you think is the most acceptable option?

EDIT: In addition to my post:

All messengers have their flaws, I'm well aware of that. I was interested in hearing users' opinions regarding these shortcomings, not in finding the perfect messenger. I may have worded my thoughts incorrectly, sorry for that.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix

    yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      These reasons are serious and valid. That's why I provided links, so as not to be unsubstantiated.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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      1 month ago

      From what I've seen there's a lot of very bad security advice out there with even tech journalists and such just straight up repeating stuff they don't understand