[the_third_wave]

Just run your own XMPP server in your own domain, use OMEMO for encryption and you're set. You can communicate with others on other servers, none of them 'publically available' and the TLA's can stare at all that encrypted gibberish 'till the cows come home. Even if they break into a single server they won't get access to the cleartext, for that they'll need to access the terminal devices - phones, browsers, etc.

This is how I've been communicating for years now, it works fine and does not feed any of the data parasites out there.

[meindnoch]

And what are you going to do when they write a law that requires ISPs to drop any packet that lacks a digital signature from a trusted hardware manufacturer?

[the_third_wave]

We're not there yet, by far. Should that ever happen it will be circumvented just like nearly all technological measures are.

[_zoltan_]

until there is a user friendly app like messenger or whatsapp, nobody is going to use these.

[reorder9695]

I don't think that's the issue, plenty are already. The issue to me is I'm not going to use something my friends/family aren't using. Maybe something matrix like where many clients are interoperable will work? I still think to take off it would need to support being a frontend for imessage/whatsapp/messenger too or no one will start using it, in a similar way to how imessage falls back to sms, this theoretical app could fall back to whatever shared app the two contacts have.

[the_third_wave]

Conversations on Android and forks thereof are comparable to eg. W/app. This is not a problem, at all.