Is anyone here aware of some alternatives to mentioned instant messaging applications ? Alot of people keep mentioning Signal , however since it is US based I am not going to entertain it as a possibility.

      • Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It is a us based non profit that doesn’t store any information about you, your contacts, or any of your metadata, and encrypts all of your data in transit and at rest, using a strong open source encryption protocol. Signals privacy is so strong that when delivering a message, they cannot tell who the sender is. It is developed out in the open and has been independently audited like four times.

        Also you don’t need to purchase the app so boycotting it really only harms you since every other messaging app (that isnt self-hosted) is objectively worse in all of these measures, or has no network effect.

        Don’t punish orgs who are doing things right.

        • adbenitez@lemmy.ml
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          3 days ago

          It is a us based non profit that doesn’t store any information about you

          still it runs in AWS, Microsoft, etc servers, and as any centralized service policy and interests can change at any time in the future, which would be pretty bad when you have several countries fully depending on them, just look the current situation with whatsapp, you can not be resilient/sovereign like that

          has been independently audited like four times.

          could you provide source pointing to the security audits?

      • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        It’s serverless though, right? The messages aren’t stored in any of signal’s servers? Or am I mistaken?

        It’s also open source, so it would be possible just to fork and use a “European” version of it. Also, since it’s open source, it’s free to use, so no money actually goes to on American company by using it.