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SimpleX Chat

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Community of SimpleX Chat users – managed by the team.

SimpleX Chat is the first chat platform that is 100% private by design – it has no user identifiers of any kind and no access to your connections graph – it's a more private design than any alternative we know of.

Please ask any questions and make feature suggestions. Your ideas and criticism are very welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is private message routing only for 1:1 conversations or for group chats as well?

Edit: Also, does this effectively hide my IP from the SimpleX relay operators, when sender and receiver use the default relay servers?
It reads like it's only effective for hiding my IP from custom relays of a sender or recipient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Private message routing is, effectively, a 2-hop onion routing protocol inspired by Tor design, but with one important difference - the first (forwarding) relay is always chosen by message sender and the second (destination) - by the message recipient. In this way, neither side of the conversation can observe IP address or transport session of another.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This looks really nice. I think the traffic reduction by not having to send to inactive group members will be very helpful as I have found that when using simple X over tor, messages can lag like a bitch. It's bad enough that for now I actually turned it off because there were times when I would receive like a hundred messages all at the same time from like days ago.