Hi everyone, I am looking for an encrypted messaging service to start using and recommending to my friends and family, I really want to get this right the first time. At the moment I’m looking at using matrix I really like it’s bridges and federated nature, Although I’m not 100% sure about it’s ux.

What I want to ask is what messaging service do you use and do you have any regrets with it? What encrypted messaging service would you recommended?

Edit: I just had another question are any of the bridges in matrix end to end encrypted? If person A used matrix and person B used signal could person A use a bridge to talk to person B securely?

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Simplex for anonymity, You can download it, share chat and start talking without registration.

    It ate my battery when I installed it. Do you use it on a daily basis? What’s your experience with its battery consumption?

    • HotCoffee@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      Have it on always on, with small scale friends and family use. Don’t find it too draining, updates have improved the battery usage

    • shortwavesurfer
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      1 day ago

      I’m in one room with 1,500 people and it uses about 7% of my battery. Mind you, that is a lot for a messenger. But I can deal with that.

    • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Sadly, I have no one to use with it, so I don’t know about battery usage. I just like, that it doesn’t require any external identifiers, unlike Signal.