I had it as a secondary system and it certainly was quite good.

Its compatibility with dos and windows was also quite good. And technically, it was way beyond what Microsoft had. It should have dominated the market.

+1 This is why I moved my family over to Signal, despite it being an American company.

Another benefit is that it’s gaining some serious traction with a lot of people now moving to Signal. Makes it easier for family members to move as well.

yeah been trying out matrix. Setup a server and tried various clients. They are all shit.

XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.

XMPP allows unencrypted messages and leaks metadata - Signal does neither.

Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.

Signal is basically a privacy enhanced text/SMS/phone replacement. I can give my phone to someone in person and they can immediately start "texting" me on Signal - this is a feature (as well as a con to some people).

This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.

People advise against Whatsapp because while it uses Signal to encrypt message contents, they take no effort to minimize the collection of metadata - Signal's been compelled by court to present all data it has on its users various times and the only info they have is the day/time you signed up for their services and the last day (not time) one of your clients pinged their servers - Source: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

I have yet to find any other free service that collects this little information and works just as well as a normal non-encrypted messenger. Even Signals sticker packs are end-to-end encrypted - Source: https://signal.org/blog/make-privacy-stick/

Since it's related, here's a good comparison:

https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

I think the other person here explained the thing about user ids. Matrix and xmpp are good too, they're just different.

Simplex is more of a messenger, while xmpp/matrix are more of discord alternatives.

Also simplex works with nodes. I can host a simplex server and it will be added to the network. In matrix/xmpp if I host a server it will be a new instance, like in lemmy (if I get it right). Simplex's approach is like tor's approach, each server added contributes to the whole network (they arent a separate instance).

If you check their page they have some bery good features, to me it seems like its signal, done (somewhat) right. Signal doesnt even have a proper way to migrate accounts across devices.. not to mention the phone number requirement which might scare people who aren't gonna waste time hearing my explanation as to why it's not an issue or the fact that until recently signal would notify everyone in your contacts who had a signal account that you made an account, bruh

There's also this comment here that throws some shade to matrix, havent looked much into that tho.

Each convo gets its own UUID, and the convos can be spread across different servers/companies too.

That said the notifications don’t work consistently for me on iOS, so that’s a dealbreaker. Hopefully they fix that soon.

Yes, I can imagine that. Thx (too ;))

Oh, it makes sense. Thx a lot for the clarification.

I got a security alert when clicking the link, I did not push further sorry ;)

mojeek is a search engine.

Paid unfortunately also means that it's way harder to convince anyone to use it, even though the price seems very low for what you get. The other problem that brings is that I don't know what I'm buying exactly until I bought it.

Yeah, they're not working for me either.

Not sure if how they work in DuckDuckGo or Brave, but in Ecosia they have predefined bangs for some sites that open that site's search when you write them. E.g. “#g woodpecker" would open a google search page for the result woodpecker, same for #yt for YouTube.

I don't know what to tell you, but a debugger is usually shipped with an IDE. If your IDE doesn't ship with a debugger then that's an issue completely independent from any OS that you're using. When I write C# programs in Visual Studio, I use the Visual Studio debugger. When I write games in Godot, I use the Godot debugger. When I write games in Unreal, I use the Unreal debugger. When I write Web Applications in IntelliJ, I use the IntelliJ Debugger. Your use case just seems extremely strange.

That being said, I'm sure there is a tool out there that does what you're looking for. I'm just not sure you should be looking for it.