Asklemmy

43810 readers

1 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

What makes an instant message good? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Soullioness@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What makes a good messenger for you?

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

when the messages arrive instantly.

[–] RayJW@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

That is protects my privacy and works well which is why I use Signal exclusively!

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

When its private and end-to-end encrypted at all costs.

Something like Whatsapp will never be or telegram is not by default.

Signal and Matrix are good.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago

XMPP / Jabber. Because: Open Source, organization behind it, old and battle tested, possible to selfhost, lots of clients on all platforms, end-to-end encryption.

[–] hejsan@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Am instant message is good when it's signed properly by the user.

Sincerely, Raymond Holt