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But Signal already has discoverability via phone number ID.

(I was thinking of Session, which ripped off Signal and lost basically everything good about it in the process)

People can still join public groups with new, regularly created profiles and spam them from there. I’m not sure how to prevent that, because AFAIK a group join message is indistinguishable from pretty much all other traffic on the network.

Spamming you directly, that’s not really much of a concern.

And yeah, Telegram has been a joke in terms of both privacy and security since its inception

I don’t like this attitude towards “peasants”

It doesn’t have any discoverability, but it does have backup and restore, something that other apps without discoverability tend to not have.

Unless you have other apps in mind that I’m not aware of.

Briar had a lot of extra features where it could connect without an internet connection, but it also had a lot of downsides… For example, if you use their “forums” feature, it becomes harder to navigate the more people use it (every reply makes it harder to scroll to where the reply is from, and there is no way to easily navigate top level things).

I don’t think that’s a privacy oriented blog… It’s laser focused on security, to the point of privacy detriment, IMO.

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Any recommendations for a decently private respecting VPN that also has port forwarding, now that Mullvad no longer supports it?

Interesting. They appear to be developing chat and file transfer functionality simultaneously, but separately… I think you can use one without the other. If you like command line tools, they have you covered… Outside of the surprisingly polished (if incomplete) mobile and desktop apps, it sure does look fun to play with.

You can, but I’m not aware of any official implementation of third party relays, or any third-party relays in general.

I’d be happy to get proven wrong, though… and considering what they have implemented: decent encryption, anonymity, etc, they’re doing pretty well regardless.

But then, the biggest criticisms for it would come from a dude or two who insists it has been corrupted by the Russian developers, whose bloodline runs as red as communism itself… Just the dumbest criticism imaginable.

I’m open to criticism, and I posted a couple here. Heck, here’s one more:

Because a single entity runs all the relays, it could in theory hold on to all the messages based on sender IP address, while appearing to not be a honeypot.

(This could also hold true for Signal, BTW.)