@Hyolobrika Sounds like they are re-inventing Tor for silly reasons. That's the problem with all VC funded startups, they always try to create a "platform" to lock users in, so the software components and protocols made by open source community must be replaced with bespoke solutions.
>Until this release though, SimpleX network had no built-in protection of user transport identities - IP addresses
>To work around this limitation, many users connected to SimpleX network relays via Tor or VPN
What? I thought Tor was used by default there. So that was just another lie?
@Hyolobrika IIRC there was a widely shared comparison chart where Tor was marked as "supported" in SimpleX and "not supported" in Matrix and others... Anyway, if Tor is not used by default, by now they must have a huge amount of personally identifying information collected from unsuspecting users. This is hilarious. Literally a honeypot
@Hyolobrika Matrix is not advertised as zero metadata secure messenger.
The majority of users will run with default settings, so if those defaults are not secure the application is similarly not secure.
@Hyolobrika In theory, Bitmessage, when used with Tor or a similar tool. But it was not successful.
I think compartmentalization is a good idea: use different identities for different contacts / groups of contacts. This can be practiced with Matrix or XMPP too. SimpleX seems to be automating this by generating a separate identity for each contact. And it is actually a smart thing to do, but it is not a "protocol without identifiers", that's bullshit.