TIL that Signal - which I love - runs on AWS.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@stefano aw yes! But basically impossible to get my family on it. I already had them move to Signal (from Whatsapp) in 2020 but Matrix/Element's learning curve is too steep for them... 😭

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@_elena I know - same issue here, so I feel your pain. But as long as we keep moving from one centralized platform to another, we will never solve the problem.

[jcast@mastodon.social]

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[lv_426_survivor@mastodon.social]

@stefano @_elena and wat about privacy and safety? Does Matrix deliver same level of encryption? Also Signal client is neat.

[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@_elena @stefano and also down if you wouldn't have run a self-hosted instance.

[papaexmatrikulatus@mastodon.social]

@_elena
Try Delta Chat.
It is resource effiecient, always encrypted, has some nice in-chat-apps and is very easy to use.

[preya@mastodon.social]

@_elena @stefano Element is definitely not the right choice for onboarding family members. I think something like FluffyChat works a lot better for that purpose.

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@_elena I found @delta extremely cool and easy to get into. It's basically just click, give an nick, done.
It's not connected to phone or anything so you need to connect with people over a link or a qr code.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@lv_426_survivor @_elena Probably not. But we can't rely on one single solution for our communications. Signal is great, but it's still centralised.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@preya @_elena I also like schildichat next

[chrislowles@mastodon.social]

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[worldwidewerner@mastodon.social]

@_elena
Yeah, I hate that. I have removed as much Amazon from my life as possible (all their direct services, like webshop, twitch, prime, goodreads, imdb) but it's hard to escape AWS :(

I love Signal tho.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@leberschnitzel I'll definitely try it out @delta

[davidbhimself@mastodon.social]

@_elena Signal is a US company. Even if they mean well, we can't fully trust them.

[ati1@mastodon.social]

@_elena Looks like half of corpo internet is down including Coursea, Udemy, Canva, Snapchat ... guess everything that depends on AWS. For me Signal is like Bluesky. If you're looking for FOSS trully decentralised messanger I would reccomend @delta or if you're after more data intensive things like voice/video and not only data chat -> then @matrix ?

[chasalin@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@_elena you could use Matrix.
But it's not as if Amazon can read your messages.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@chasalin Oh I use Matrix... and even *I* can't read my messages because... weird encryption.

This is what a recent chat history appears on my Mac Mini at my parents' home... some chats look fine, others are like this.

For this reason I don't feel comfortable asking my family and friends to move to Matrix. I'd rather try Delta Chat first