New privage message app Olvid

Hello,

A friend convinced me to try out a new messaging app and I thought it might interest people here.
Name’s Olvid (forget in Spanish). They claim they don’t store anything and the set up does not require a phone number or an e-mail.

I’m not advocating it’s better or anything, I just installed it, found it interesting and thought it was worth sharing. Anyone has already tried this ?

Looks good, but it’s not open source

And only Android and iOS apps as far as I can see.

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I’m not familiar with it but here is an excellent rubric to consider all of the elements for the service and compare them to what’s already in the field.

https://inteltechniques.com/messaging.html

It gets boring when every month a new messaging app pops up and you are back at zero, e.g. the promise to opensource it etc etc. Here we are again at fragmentation.

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Yep, we tried the browser app but it wasn’t working (still beta)

My hope is in Matrix clients for longer-term.

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