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I’ve used it before, but I’m not really sure how I feel about it. Would you use it on a day-to-day basis?
My opinion: it’s good. I would use it on a daily basis if someone would ask me to text on it with her. But I’d never ask someone else to use it because there are, in my opinion, better options like matrix and signal which I mandate people to use.
Well Matrix and Signal are not necessarily better but just more convenient and suitable for normal users
Yes, And more widespread
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I personally think that Session is better than Signal. At least it doesn’t require a phone number to register.
I wouldn’t see a reason to use Session over SimpleX
I think the server infrastructure is different? SimpleX is similar to a federation network, isn’t it? Session uses an Onion-based approach like Tor.
My use of session is limited to my kids, wife and a couple of friends. I had high hopes for it when I started using it, but its devs have fallen incredibly short. I have also tried SimpleX on and off, but for some reason, it drinks battery like there’s no tomorrow, so I’m off of it for now.
Hello! In the latest v5.8 of SimpleX there are various improvements that might be of interest, including for battery consumption.
Yup. Just tried it again with a few paranoid friends like me, and the battery drain is now gone. Just moved the FAM over too 🤣🤣
I really like the idea of creating a decentralized network that has a fair monetization model built right in, instead of relying on donations like the Fediverse. Crypto got a very bad rep, but this kind of stuff is exactly what it’s good for imo.
It also has some core features that are missing from other similar messengers, like multi-device sync. And lastly, the devs seem pretty capable and open as well. They are very transparent with their work and seem to have the right ideas about where things should go and which trade-offs to make. E.g. their reasoning for not using the Signal protocol seems solid to me.
So I’m hopeful, but time will tell if it all works out.
I use it, it works pretty good tbh.
I use it for our family chat. It’s okay. The biggest issue is sometimes messages are delayed (up to half-an-hour at times). Other than that, it’s fine. It meets our needs.
The session developers are interesting. But I don’t recommend anybody use session.
They took the signal protocol, and removed perfect forward secrecy because they found it hard to implement.
That’s crazy.
Also all of the file transfers on session go through servers in Canada. Centralized.
I give them kudos for trying to make the network self-sustainable through their crypto thing, but they never found a way to actually monetize it, there’s no paper use, it feels like the idea is kind of dead in the water at this point. I would not recommend session for any serious non-experimental usage
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It’s not a lie. I have read their post. And my interpretation reading between the lines is they dropped it because of complexity
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Fair enough. They did not explicitly say they removed it for complexity.
The facts are: they started with a protocol that had perfect forward secrecy, and they removed it, but not for philosophical reasons.
They were not opposed to perfect forward secrecy
In today’s ecosystem there are products that use onion networks and provide perfect for secrecy like simple x, and briar over tor…
You’re welcome to make any decision you like, if you want to use session go right ahead. I’m not going to stop you, and I’m happy you’re doing so. We’re all better for choice
