submitted 2 years ago by 7heo@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone,

I have discovered SimpleX Chat (nothing to do with XChat or HexChat, or the favorite letter of some dumb billionaire), and it appears being a legit good effort at providing good privacy while retaining "mainstream" usability.

And it has been audited (by one company so far, it seems).

The only concern I have is with regards to battery life (given that it has to maintain roughly as many open connections as you have contacts, AFAICT).

Has anyone here used it? Any opinion?

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[-] monty@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Simplex is great! I have not noticed any impact to battery life. I use it mainly to chat with my family including kids who don't have a phone number, which makes other secure chat apps not feasible. I really like that it is nearly impossible for someone we dont know to reach the kids on simplex since the connection process is very manual.

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