On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:33 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1. Lack of true interoperability and vender / platform lock-in. It used to > be that I could login to Chrome at the library and use Cryptocat and then > Signal. > > The millenial generation is currently engaged in an internal battle for protocol dominance. Once the bubble bursts and we have our second dot com crash, we will achieve a brief era of interoperability before the next innovation tears it all apart. Few people my age learned from history, and will therefore repeat it. > 2. Feature bloat. A lightweight secure text app with out any voice, video, > emoji garbage. > > Remember the sole purpose of technology is to solve a given problem. A lot of people ask questions like "Which app should I use?" or "Does anything have any recommendations?" but in order to answer your question, we need to know what you intend to use said app for. Can you elaborate on your intended use case? The software is FOSS, so it's hard to pinpoint a feature when everyone offers the same set of features. To be perfectly honest with you, the majority of these apps are just chrome extensions. It often takes more effort to remove features than it does to add them so you are unlikely to find a "popular" app that doesn't do unicode and VOIP. As for the Secure part of your question, that's an easy one: Don't trust anything based on Electron or Node.js. The concerns you mention about feature bloat and security are largely due to convergent .JS platforms, so if you ignore anything based on those platforms, you are much more likely to find what you are looking for, with better confidence in your end-to-end encryption. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
