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?

      • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
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        1 day ago

        Upvoted.

        Appreciate the reply, but I don’t mind some proprietary code. There are very few reviews of open code by respected bodies (I’m writing in generality here). I’m certainly not qualified to review code. Just being open is only the beginning of the journey.

        As we’ve seen with some open software recently there are some active hackers successfully targeting open software because it is open. Such exploits are not always discovered in good time.

        https://thenewstack.io/why-so-much-open-source-software-is-vulnerable-to-hackers/

        https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/github-desktop-vulnerability-risks.html

        Etc etc.

        I place store by the warrant responses and action of government entities against some software.

        • refalo@programming.dev
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          1 day ago

          Thanks. You’re not wrong, and I appreciate the well-written response. Some might say you are defending/advocating proprietary software with this stance, but I don’t think there is a clear answer either way that applies to every circumstance.

          • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
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            1 day ago

            Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!

            I’m old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.

            RedHat had been sold to the ‘no-one ever got fired for buying IBM’ (I still can’t believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn’t translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.

            I can’t wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world’s oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.