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SimpleX Chat

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Also known as SimpleX

privacy preserving communication app

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You can connect to the team via the app using "chat with the developers button" available when you have no conversations in the profile, "Send questions and ideas" in the app settings or via our SimpleX address. Please connect to: to ask any questions to suggest any improvements to share anything relevant You can find the groups created by users in SimpleX Directory. It is also available as SimpleX bot that allows to add your own groups and communities to the directory. We are not responsible for the content shared in these groups. Please note : The groups below are created for the users to be able to ask questions, make suggestions and ask questions about SimpleX Chat only. There is also a group simplex-devs for developers who build on SimpleX platform: chat bots and automations integrations with other apps social apps and services etc. We publish our updates and releases via: Reddit, Twitter, Lemmy, Mastodon and Nostr. SimpleX Chat team profile. blog and RSS feed. mailing list, very rarely. The channel through which you share the link does not have to be secure - it is enough that you can confirm who sent you the message and that your SimpleX connection is established. Read about the app features and settings in the new User guide. We would love to have you join the development! You can help us with: develop a chat bot for SimpleX Chat! writing a tutorial or recipes about hosting servers, chat bots, etc. developing features - please connect to us via chat so we can help you get started. Thanks to our users and Weblate, SimpleX Chat apps, website and documents are translated to many other languages. Languages in progress: Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and others. We will be adding more languages as some of the already added are completed – please suggest new languages, review the translation guide and get in touch with us! Our pledge to our users is that SimpleX protocols are and will remain open, and in public domain, - so anybody can build the future implementations of the clients and the servers. We are building SimpleX platform based on the same principles as email and web, but much more private and secure. Your donations help us raise more funds - any amount, even the price of the cup of coffee, would make a big difference for us. Everyone should care about privacy and security of their communications - innocuous conversations can put you in danger even if there is nothing to hide. One of the most shocking stories is the experience of Mohamedou Ould Salahi that he wrote about in his memoir and that is shown in The Mauritanian movie. He was put into Guantanamo camp, without trial, and was tortured there for 15 years after a phone call to his relative in Afghanistan, under suspicion of being involved in 9/11 attacks, even though he lived in Germany for the 10 years prior to the attacks. Unlike any other existing messaging platform, SimpleX has no identifiers assigned to the users - not even random numbers. This protects the privacy of who are you communicating with, hiding it from SimpleX platform servers and from any observers. Read more. SimpleX stores all user data on client devices, the messages are only held temporarily on SimpleX relay servers until they are received. Read more. You can use SimpleX with your own servers and still communicate with people using the servers that are pre-configured in the apps or any other SimpleX servers. Read more. 1. How SimpleX can deliver messages without any user identifiers? See v2 release announcement explaining how SimpleX works. 2. Why should I not just use Signal? Signal is a centralized platform that uses phone numbers to identify its users and their contacts. It means that while the content of your messages on Signal is protected with robust end-to-end encryption, there is a large amount of meta-data visible to Signal - who you talk with and when. 3. How is it different from Matrix, Session, Ricochet, Cwtch, etc., that also don't require user identi

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SimpleX Chat
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