I’ve seen a lot of talk about privacy minded chat clients on here but a search did not bring up Tox. I have been delving into the Gemini protocol ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) and a few folks there have listed Tox for contact. Anyone have thoughts on this?

It’s encrypted, peer to peer, FOSS, and requires no signup.

  • CHEF-KOCH
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    Maintainer stole money from the project ever since then it died with it + no audit. Main reason why I unlisted it from my privacy project.

    Lots of baseless claims and whatnot, more hype around it which is not worth it. I would use it but not under the incompetent management.

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      So besides the management you’re saying the software itself could be viable?

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        Sure, as said I would use it myself instead of Element. The project always had potential and was underestimated since day one. People donated in the hope to improve the known issues + get an audit, sadly that day never came and after the shit-show that happened people lost trust.

        It is not perfect, same like Element it has flaws but they are fixable with some help and effort.