Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/neo-nazis-head-to-encrypted-simplex-chat-app-bail-on-telegram/

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n3m37h@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Oh please be another honeypot app lmfao

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y

Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to get your wish as its fully open source and the servers can be self-hosted quite easily. Unlike Telegram, where only the actual end client was open source and the server side was closed source. In SimpleX everything is open source.

Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Hackliberty is one of the most active SimpleX groups

I'd urge you not to disregard the tech because media hit pieces

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md

https://simplex.chat/faq/

n3m37h@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)
Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

.. I understand the concept of a honeypot

If you think that's what's going on here you don't understand simplex at all

n3m37h@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

It was a joke man

AHasshacked@links.hackliberty.org · 1 pts · 1y

Honestly the more privacy-preserving app is, the more radically good guys you'll meet, and at same extent the more radically bad