I’m leaving WhatsApp tomorrow. Now, the privacy-community on the web features countless discussions, blogs, videos, and comments on whether XMPP or Matrix would be the better protocol, whether people should use Signal or not and why - but I’ve been missing one thing: A simple and short article to send to my friends where the main differences between centralized, federated, and distributed messaging services are outlined.
So I wrote one! I thought it might be useful for others too, so I’m sharing it here. Please feel free to bookmark it and share it with your family and friends!
Link to the article in the geminispace: gemini://gemlog.blue/users/yellow/1612715438.gmi
Notice anything missing? Anything wrong and needs to be fixed? Happy to hear and integrate some feedback! :)
+1 for session, it looks amazing for privacy and anonymity thanks to bouncing the message multiple times and stripping metadata. clean and modern interface as well.
https://getsession.org/session-for-beginners/