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I'm looking for something to share images and videos between small family group. We use mix of android and apple. Text messages are terrible for images and videos.

We were using telegram, now I want to see what lemmy has to offer. Thank you in advance.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Signal ?

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll check this out!

[โ€“] InternetCitizen2 2 points 2 months ago

Signal is likely the best and easiest drop in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Signal, hello?

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 1 points 2 months ago

So it seems.

[โ€“] rwdf 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Signal.

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Signal!

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nothing better than Signal

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 3 points 3 months ago

Seems like it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Signal is probably the simplest to get started with.

There is also element/matrix for more of a discord type feel.

SimpleX if you want something more anonymous.

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 1 points 2 months ago

Not looking for discord type feel. Looking for easy set up and communicating with older people and able to share videos and images.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everyone is saying Signal, but my family uses a Matrix space (mix of phones and PCs in this case) and it works great. It's FOSS, federated. Truly future-proof.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Signal is the most polished, but Matrix is the most future-proof.

And that's not to say that matrix lacks polish, Signal is just excellent in this regard.

[โ€“] bradboimler 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point I feel the Matrix clients I've been keeping on eye on are more polished than Signal. None of my contacts are on Matrix though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah? Which ones specifically? I like to keep tabs on Matrix - it's really the most open of the secure systems, and if it's clean enough to recommend, all the better.

[โ€“] bradboimler 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I recommend Element web (it has a nice PWA), Element X for Android, and the matrix.org homeserver. They're in the middle of a migration to OpenID Connect which should simplify auth for users. You may wanna wait for that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks!

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

signal, simplex

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks I'll check it out

[โ€“] mypasswordis1234 7 points 3 months ago

Signal

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd recommend Threema. It's privacy focused, based in Switzerland. You don't even need a phone number to create an account, they collect no data on you (claimed, but haven't checked) and the code is open source, under A-GPL 3 license.

There's a build for Apple and Android, for which you pay once.

I use this to talk with important family members.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I forgot to mention, it's easy to use, as it's similar to every other messenger app, so even not so techy members can use it.

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 1 points 2 months ago

Looking for a free solution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Signal is a nice suggestion but is based in the US meaning they could be subpoenaed and legally not allowed to say. It's unlikely you'd be targeted though, unless you're a very high-profile person. If you're concerned about where servers are being run and who by then matrix is a great alternative.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Do they have a warrant canary? I bet they might, hopefully

[โ€“] Crazyslinkz 2 points 2 months ago

I don't care. It's for sharing images and videos of grandkids to grandparents.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've been using Delta Chat for the last few weeks, its very similar to WhatsApp, but decentralised... Works very well, available on android & ios, definitely worth a look, as it could be good for your use case..

https://delta.chat/en/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just got to know about Delta Chat which sounds fantastic as it basically uses your email but wrapped as chat.

XMPP and Matrix are other good options too, although these require creating an account (Delta Chat can work with your normal email account).

The good thing about these last 2 is that they have calls and all that stuff.

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