> This is the venture capital company of Jef Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, ect.
This is simply a misinformation. Read Ben's comment. These people are among hundreds of their LPs, without direct influence on any of the invested companies.
> I believe in SimpleX Chat vision and team’s ability to execute it. The growing number of Internet users who demand privacy of their data and contacts will make SimpleX Chat profitable, which is critically important for any sustainable organization.
> We are fortunate to have LPs who founded many iconic Internet ventures. But they don’t have any influence on the 400+ companies we invested in. They are financial investors in our fund and exert no control or influence on any of the underlying portfolio companies.
> What's more, we believe that founders should lead their ventures, as it yields better results – our investment in SimpleX Chat has no control provisions. We are happy to help, but we don’t control any decisions nor have a board seat. Evgeny runs the company independently.
From https://simplex.chat/blog/20240814-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v6-private-routing-new-user-experience.html
No, but it's a very similar design with relays. Nostr has largely failed to provide a private and secure DM protocol so far so that should be a good thing. nostr:nevent1qqs04jkx6rxfnzs8a3dc3gxsqpvjhe9yat74y3hdmfw53efeu22g6qcqrau8x
Media and files could count as other stuff which is transmitted via relays rather than being uploaded to a single webserver like what happens on Nostr. Here's an article if you want to learn more about SimpleX's file transfer protocol specially https://simplex.chat/blog/20230301-simplex-file-transfer-protocol.html
No need to compromise on discoverability or privacy. Nostr can be used as a discorrability layer for SimpleX (or any other messaging app) but this has been turned down twice. There were discussions about interesting SimpleX with Nostr last year but it never went anywhere, someone made a proposal for a contact info field to replace the DM button with but that was declined.
There was a NIP proposal for adding general contact info links which includes SimpleX. NIP-48 is for bridging content from other platforms, NIP-39 is for verifying identities of other platforms, which I suppose could be done for SimpleX addresses if there was a way to sign messages with the public keys. I think NIP-24 kind 0's are the most suitable for linking to SimpleX addresses as described here: https://github.com/retrnull/garnet/issues/8
Yep, which unfortunately most people aren't going to do, and it's debatable whether we actually own the domains either when compared to cryptographic keys like Nostr
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are much different. GrapheneOS is a hardened OS with substantial privacy and security improvements:
grapheneos.org/features
CalyxOS is not a hardened OS. It substantially reduces security. It regularly goes months not shipping critical security patches.
CalyxOS is closely related to LineageOS and heavily based on it. LineageOS is not at all security-focused but rather is focused on broad device support which comes with major compromises. It adds a lot of attack surface and it doesn't keep up with major releases.
Compatibility with Android apps on GrapheneOS is also much different. GrapheneOS provides our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer:
grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxe…
Can run the vast majority of Play Store apps on GrapheneOS, but not CalyxOS with the problematic microG approach.
We have so many good PS3/Xbox 360/Switch games available that can play on an emualtor for free, I really don't see a reason to beyond multiplayer but even that is being worked on for the emulators
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are much different. GrapheneOS is a hardened OS with substantial privacy and security improvements:
grapheneos.org/features
CalyxOS is not a hardened OS. It substantially reduces security. It regularly goes months not shipping critical security patches.
CalyxOS is closely related to LineageOS and heavily based on it. LineageOS is not at all security-focused but rather is focused on broad device support which comes with major compromises. It adds a lot of attack surface and it doesn't keep up with major releases.
Compatibility with Android apps on GrapheneOS is also much different. GrapheneOS provides our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer:
grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxe…
Can run the vast majority of Play Store apps on GrapheneOS, but not CalyxOS with the problematic microG approach.
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