Alternative to Signal

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/signal

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  • Synapse

    Discontinued Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

    https://matrix.org/ - It's an open, federated, E2E encrypted messaging standard. The downside is it's more complicated, so someone would need to come out with a very simple Signal-like client that just happens to use Matrix as a back-end.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • session-desktop

    Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

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  • privacytools.io

    Discontinued 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

    Git hub link

  • Prosody IM

    IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.

    It supports voice and video calls, and you use it on your own server (like prosody.im and ejabberd.im). It's also really simple to get a user to create an account on a server you run/a public one and.... it does not require a phone number or an email address.

  • fast_yaml

    Fast YAML native library for Erlang / Elixir

    It supports voice and video calls, and you use it on your own server (like prosody.im and ejabberd.im). It's also really simple to get a user to create an account on a server you run/a public one and.... it does not require a phone number or an email address.

  • Conversations

    Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

    conversations.im is a open-source, privacy focused and secure messaging app, that implements OMEMO (which is Signal protocol adapted for XMPP). I won't say it's non-profit as the guy leading the project does it as his own full-time job.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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