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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There are some fairly good solutions tho. Matrix is still kinda half-baked (specifically thinking about 2.0 and Element X) and Conversations has limited capabilities, but they are fairly easy to use

Edit: Although I would really wish Matrix had a 'normie-mode', with secure and reasonably easy to handle defaults

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I use Matrix, and I've moved some conversations with people I met in public rooms there to Signal because it kept failing to transfer keys rendering it unable to decrypt messages. I haven't seen that in a while so maybe it's fixed, but I haven't been using it for one-to-one conversations lately.

Unfortunately, I've found most people have a lot of resistance to adding another messaging app. I don't really understand why that is, but it's true. Asking someone to install a messaging app when I'm their only contact who uses it and they have another way to contact me has a success rate near zero.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I also had encryption problems, especially when I was running Conduit rather than Synapse. However, I never had such problems in XMPP with OMEMO.