I use beeper which uses matrix under the hood so that I can talk to my friends who are using insta chats and since I don't want to use instagram just to chat wi

I use beeper which uses matrix under the hood so that I can talk to my friends who are using insta chats and since I don't want to use instagram just to chat with them. It works really nicely, can recommend. The matrix protocol in that sense does work wonder. There are new protocols like session, simplex (preferred?) but simplex has the issue that it is doing client side search for csam etc and I don't have a problem with csam search but then they will actually go into that group and shut that group, again I don't have an issue but their wordings have been extremely vague and it just seems like that anybody can report any server and they have the power to shut them down..., doesn't sound decentralized. Again I am sure that csam is used as shield for privacy and yes I also would want to eradicate csam completely from the face of the earth but maybe in the process we would end up completely 1984. I read into simplex protocol and the groups are honestly glue code tbh, you trust the nodes to give you safe info but in effect they can be malicious too. Simplex says that it is for 1-1 conversations but at that point, using something like tor based communication for live messaging is better. The only use case of simplex I can find is 1-1 chats when the other person isn't online. But I guess I don't trust that either and at that point I would much rather use something like proton docs or proton drive as the storage layer... Deltachat which is based on email looks really nice too. There is this secuchat created by bkilm on gitlab which is worth a read actually. I am not finding this at the moment but I remember actually going through all of them and going on their matrix [1] Both signal,matrix and maybe even simplex are good tbh. Edit: Found it! [1]: https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/ https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/