Yeah, it’s a cool toy, but when I was picking a messenger to sell my SO on, Simplex failed my basic requirements:
works on phone, desktop and laptop (messages arrive everywhere reliably)
Signal passed, so we went with that.
Simplex is still rad though, and I want to try building something on top of the protocol. I’m working on a P2P Reddit/Lemmy, and Simplex could be rad for DMs or something.
I didn’t personally have problems with reliability (same as for XMPP, Matrix however has broken for me a few times). As for multiple devices - I just use two, with identical names and profile pictures, one on laptop and one on phone.
Yeah, Simplex is reliable. My point is that if I have a conversion with my SO on one device and want to continue on another, I can’t really do that. So messages will come to one or another. When I tried it, they had a CLI tool to get that working, but that’s not going to be acceptable for my SO.
So I went with Signal. It’s easy for my SO to use and has strong privacy protections.
Yeah, it’s a cool toy, but when I was picking a messenger to sell my SO on, Simplex failed my basic requirements:
Signal passed, so we went with that.
Simplex is still rad though, and I want to try building something on top of the protocol. I’m working on a P2P Reddit/Lemmy, and Simplex could be rad for DMs or something.
I didn’t personally have problems with reliability (same as for XMPP, Matrix however has broken for me a few times). As for multiple devices - I just use two, with identical names and profile pictures, one on laptop and one on phone.
Yeah, Simplex is reliable. My point is that if I have a conversion with my SO on one device and want to continue on another, I can’t really do that. So messages will come to one or another. When I tried it, they had a CLI tool to get that working, but that’s not going to be acceptable for my SO.
So I went with Signal. It’s easy for my SO to use and has strong privacy protections.