I’m looking for something to share images and videos between small family group. We use mix of android and apple. Text messages are terrible for images and videos.

We were using telegram, now I want to see what lemmy has to offer. Thank you in advance.

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Everyone is saying Signal, but my family uses a Matrix space (mix of phones and PCs in this case) and it works great. It’s FOSS, federated. Truly future-proof.

    • bastion@feddit.nl
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      6 months ago

      Yeah. Signal is the most polished, but Matrix is the most future-proof.

      And that’s not to say that matrix lacks polish, Signal is just excellent in this regard.

      • bradboimler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        At this point I feel the Matrix clients I’ve been keeping on eye on are more polished than Signal. None of my contacts are on Matrix though.

        • bastion@feddit.nl
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          6 months ago

          Yeah? Which ones specifically? I like to keep tabs on Matrix - it’s really the most open of the secure systems, and if it’s clean enough to recommend, all the better.

          • bradboimler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I recommend Element web (it has a nice PWA), Element X for Android, and the matrix.org homeserver. They’re in the middle of a migration to OpenID Connect which should simplify auth for users. You may wanna wait for that.

  • MC_Lovecraft@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will. I use Teleguard which is very similar to Telegram but run out of Switzerland, and with 2-way encryption automatically enabled, unlike signal or telegram.

    • salarua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.

      source?

      • MC_Lovecraft@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        https://www.opentech.fund/news/february-2018-monthly-report/

        It’s not a secret. It’s on their website. Note: the Open Technology Fund is the CIA. Just like Radio Free Asia (or Radio Free X, they’re all CIA-run appendages of the US state department) which the fund grew out of. The US government very often funds technologies and startups that have the potential surveillance applications (among other things) and Signal was one of them. The people calling this a conspiracy theory have no idea what they are talking about, but that’s not uncommon when it comes to Americans and swallowing their own propaganda whole.

    • SouthFresh@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Photo/video sharing will undergo re-encoding under some circumstances, like mixed Andoir/iOS groups

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        How can you even do mixed Android/iOS groups right now from iOS? I keep seeing people refer to that, but before I installed the iOS 18 Beta that added RCS, I tried and non-iMessage “group chats” were essentially just a broadcast list where the recipients just saw it as coming from me.