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 SimpleX still miles ahead of Signal with no user ids at all! 🤙🏼 
 lagging behind on quantum resistant encryptiom but apart from that i agree 
 Fair point 
 they both serve a purpose. I recommend both SimpleX and Briar, they both have PFS. Adoption is important for privacy and security. IMO Signal/Molly has more users and is easy to use, so it's good for day-to-day communication and normie adoption while SimpleX and Briar are currently better suited for more specialized use cases. 
 I use Signal when I don't care if spooks are seeing it 🤙🏼 
 my biggest gripe with signal is that it does not provide anonymity. i think simplex is ready for mass adoption. it is well on its way to being a matrix killer, and a signal killer. molly dev has been teasing something cool for anonymous registration for a couple of years now but still no eta afaik. but for now, the feedback i've received from users and clients is that most people still have a hard time onboarding normies (and their friends and family) to signal, much less simplex 
 Where's the evidence that post-quantum will happen anytime soon or that the harvest-now-decrypt-later attack is plausible. 
 Hahahaha
Behind on quantum resistant.


Focus on metadata. 
 I wished the notifications had the profile picture included rather than app icon. 
 Das stimmt 
 not as good as an nsec tho, but we have a lot of work to do to make DMs and group messaging work on #nostr - nip44 is terrible and the "implementation" for #golang doesn't work

i'm working on a chat client and will be on it in my part time but maybe in a few months i'll be able to release, it will have android, linux, windows, ios and macos... i may need some help to do the last two exactly, i can build them but i can't test either and refuse to waste my money on that shit