By “shared” servers I mean hosters like https://tchncs.de/en/ who offer a bunch of services (they do a great job at it by the way) including Matrix and Lemmy.
I’m thinking of moving my close family to a Matrix chat over there, but I guess long term they might have to implement the ChatControl scanning.
This whole thing is just stupid.
XMPP/Jabber comes to mind. You can self host or pay for hosting on a service like Snikket. The protocol supports OMEMO encryption and you can use whatever client you want (Cheogram, Dino, Gajim, etc) on any platform like android or linux. Cheogram is even coming out with a web interface for it, and it supports calling and video calling.
Threat model wise, whatever server you pick would have to be targeted directly, and would therefore be immune to sweeping regulation that directly targets big hitters like Signal. And if you pay for servers outside the EU, even more so
Thank you. I had a look at XMPP a while ago, but now DeltaChat seems a bit modern and with built-in encryption compared to OMEMO.
I just set up an account for a friend on their phone, the thing took 5 minutes, definitely nice than the Matrix experience.
i adore deltachat and arcane chat
Yes, they are really growing on me