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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Evgeny Poberezkin - SimpleX Chat: 1st Messaging Platform Bridging Between Privacy & Mass-market Apps (www.youtube.com)

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say the real first is Signal tbh, but not taking anything away from SimpleX

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He specifically articulates the problem with Signal in the talk which is collection of metadata (phone numbers).

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As bad as it is, phone numbers are a feature, not a bug

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

No one is saying it’s a bug. Why not Signal?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago

A feature can be turned off. Phone numbers are mandatory for a signal account

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just checked my battery usage by app.

SimpleX has the first place with 35%, with the next app being the browser with mere 12% :/

The punch line? I'm not even using SimpleX, it's just installed on my phone because there were a few chats I wanted to join.

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Yup it loves to run in the background on startup, I always exit it right away whenever I restart my phone... Try that on your phone maybe it will help, 35% is insane

[–] Emberleaf@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

SimpleX is great, but it needs to mature a little in regards to usability. The desktop app is abysmally slow, and the amount of memory it uses really needs to be trimmed down. If they manage to streamline these two things, I could see SimpleX becoming quite popular. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.