this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
31 points (91.9% liked)

Privacy

31975 readers
229 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I've already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn't work.

What messangers do you guys/gals recommend?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If they won't change to something better like SimpleX then you could use https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS . It is a fork of qksms that adds privacy, it will do nothing for video quality or anything else though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it maintained though? Last commit and release were 8 months ago.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

If it works...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But only if both ends use the same app.

Which I always thought was a smart path forward, just getting people to switch apps, even for SMS, isike puling teeth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, it is only a solution if all parties are using Partisan, which means switching apps.

As I understand it the use case for this app is during protests in Belarus where the government shuts down mobile internet but not SMS.