Yes bet so are console platforms.

I rip through an ounce of dabs a month and can run a homelab and write software that way, I have no problem holding a 9-5. Your friends are just irresponsible, or more likely, just don’t give a fuck like 99% of people.

Me and my friends are all stoners, we use simplex fine. Not sure what your deal is.

Either way why do they need to do something at a certain time?

YOU CAN MESSAGE OFFLINE USERS ON SIMPLEX THEY WILL GET THE MESSAGE LATER, IF THEYRE ONLINE NOW THEY WILL GET A NOTIFICATION. IF THIS ISNT WORKING YOUR NOTIFICATION SETTINGS ARE FUCKED.

I’m sorry you and your friends can’t figure out how to use literally the first open source privacy a respecting messenger that I actually think I could hand to my grandmother…

Lot of people mentioning SimpleX but I can’t imagine trying to make someone go online at the same time as me to start sending each other messages without being annoyed.

Do you just keep your phone off or do you not use your IM clients there? Literally never had this issue with simplex, it deliveres notifications just fine to my phone.

Though I did manually have to give it notification perms on android. Annoying but very easy fix.

Honestly its pretty convenient too, only inconvenience really is backing up a file.

Been using it to communicate with a coupla friends and my boyfriend.

Its easy to get people on-boarded and it seems to have the important features. What’s the issue?

Jmp.chat provides sim activations for xmr but honestly no matter what anything with a cell radio is being logged by its upstream carrier.

If you want a truely private number, use jmp.chat with a separate xmpp server over something like mullvad.

For what its worth, the sim swap protection might be worth it considering how many services force you to use SMS for 2fa, and they seem to ask for less data than usual.

Is it better than your average carrier? Maybe. Is any SMS/phone call coming out of your personal number something you should consider private from the government? Probably not.

Its still going to have to go over the big boy carriers, and its still probably going to be tied to a phone number several institutions will know is yours if its your main number.

If it isn’t, use jmp.chat, alongside a good XMPP provider and VPN, or forego the PSTN all-together.

Unfortunately, when it happens here its going to be a long, awful, drawn out, bloody conflict.