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"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps
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Totally! f-droid has the gold standard on this and tor was also passed on to the EFF giving it more credibility in the enemies of three letter agencies.
Sadly journalists have chosen Signal as their preferred communication tool. Denying more secure and distributed tools a way forward.
I found that simplex is in f-droid already
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.simplex.app/