Well spam seems pretty easy to combat. A lot of the groups make you talk to the admins and wait before you can talk, and you can have it so you approve contacts before they can contact you using one of your links. And if one of your links falls to spam, you can just delete it. I’d say spam isn’t really an issue.
I know about that and that’s why I’m not worried about them having my phone number, but its still a pointless requirement. What if I don’t have a phone number for privacy reasons? SimpleX is still better in every way other than simplicity.
Signal is good because it is easy to get others on board because of its simplicity, while having good encryption and security. However, SimpleX is just a better option. No phone number required, the same encryption, you can make a new profile whenever you want and you can have however many you want at a time. The groups can hold thousands of people. You can have it automatically make a new anonymous profile for you for each contact and group so that you can’t be tracked across them apart from your writing style. There are no usernames, you add each other through links, which can be temporary or permanent, and you can add or remove a link whenever you want.
Sorry for that big wall of text, I just spat out all the things SimpleX is better for. I think that it’s platform is the future.
Steamrip.com is starred on fmhy.net, I trust it. I’ve used it many times with no problems.
I would use Mullvad Browser for browsing as it has very strong anti-fingerprinting/tracking and Brave/Librewolf (or a different privacy Firefox fork) for anything that you need to be logged in for.
I recommend Soulseek as well. You can find almost any audiobook on there, no VPN needed. Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android. iPhone users are out of luck though.
Rules for thee not for me.
Personally I disagree and think that the way SimpleX already has it is the best way because I don’t think trying to protect your privacy as much as possible should automatically get you labelled as a spammer, but I can see your viewpoint.