Hi everyone, I am looking for an encrypted messaging service to start using and recommending to my friends and family, I really want to get this right the first time. At the moment I’m looking at using matrix I really like it’s bridges and federated nature, Although I’m not 100% sure about it’s ux.

What I want to ask is what messaging service do you use and do you have any regrets with it? What encrypted messaging service would you recommended?

Edit: I just had another question are any of the bridges in matrix end to end encrypted? If person A used matrix and person B used signal could person A use a bridge to talk to person B securely?

  • LambdaRX
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    Signal for security standard and ease of use, which is essential, if You want to use it with non techy people.

    Simplex for anonymity, You can download it, share chat and start talking without registration.

    • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Simplex for anonymity, You can download it, share chat and start talking without registration.

      It ate my battery when I installed it. Do you use it on a daily basis? What’s your experience with its battery consumption?

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        Have it on always on, with small scale friends and family use. Don’t find it too draining, updates have improved the battery usage

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        I’m in one room with 1,500 people and it uses about 7% of my battery. Mind you, that is a lot for a messenger. But I can deal with that.

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        Sadly, I have no one to use with it, so I don’t know about battery usage. I just like, that it doesn’t require any external identifiers, unlike Signal.