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Wire, Threema, or Signal? What am I going to recommend to friends and family on WhatsApp? I leaning towards Wire right now even though I used Threema in the past.
@kensanata Recommend #matrix which is decentralized and really secure.I wouldn't trust any company with centralized servers. http://matrix.org
@nipos My only issue is the Riot UI which is not something I can recommend without reservations.
@kensanata Then you should probably use Jabber.It has the Zom client (http://zom.im) which looks like an normal messenger and is very easy and it has the more complicated Conversations client (http://conversations.im) which has more functions and both work perfectly together so everyone can use what he/she likes more.There are extremely many free Jabber servers.I recommend http://jabber.de
@nipos This sounds good! Based on another recommendation I just started setting up #prosody, an XMPP server, and now I'm wondering whether the default Jabber implementations don't allow users to create group chats like all the other services. That's an important feature, for me. I guess I'll see in a minute.
@nipos Hm, so I abandoned self-hosting. It just didn't work out. I guess looking at an external XMPP server would still work.