Which messengers does F-Droid have available?

[anon46495926]

Looks like promoting non-free network services to me.

[TheLastProject]

Why? S3 may have been originally AWS-exclusive, but it’s moved into a “standard” with multiple implementations, of which one of them is MinIO, available under the GNU AGPL3. There’s no need to use a non-free network service.

[ralfmeister]

Can you recommend a good messenger on F-Droid?

Something with the functionality of whatsapp but does not require a phone number maybe?

Something with the privacy of Telegram?

[ByteHamster]

@ralfmeister

Something with the privacy of Telegram?

Telegram basically doesn’t have any privacy, unless you use a “secret chat”. I wonder why they deliberately discourage the use of secret chats by disabling most of the features in secret chats… Most other messengers (including WhatsApp) ship with proper encryption by default – without having to manually turn it on, and without removing features when turning it on.

About which messenger is best, it depends on your use case. There are plenty of discussions about messengers on here, just use the search function

[SkewedZeppelin]

I maintain a table here, most of the first listed ones are on F-Droid: Messengers - DivestOS Mobile

[Licaon_Kter]

My quote from last year:

Durov’s FUD is fun (and yes he can throw dirt since the other side is in the mud)
https://t.me/durov/145

“Telegram’s code is not open-source”.
https://t.me/durovschat/515221
Yes you can verify, if you federate you can’t pull tricks on you users anymore

“Telegram is not encrypted”
WhatsApp, on the other hand, had zero encryption for a few years,
Yes unencrypted just like 99.9999% of Telegram users, just like 100%(!!) of Telegram group chats

Oh, then you go double speak: unencryption is a Telegram FEATURE
really? https://t.me/durovschat/527081

Look at the security of Telegram at work: TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands
Oh wa- I meant Telegram the silo, not Telegram users

[ralfmeister]

SkewedZeppelin,
your answered my question with excellence. Thank you so much.

[Simpostor]

There is one more messenger not mentioned here,but maybe worth to remember - tox, which even if still in beta version might be impressive due to it’s network connectivity skills (derived from tor protocol). The nice side of tox is that it does not require anything to register. The apps have still some issues to be fixed (trifa, atox) but tox has really cool concepts.