cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38798523

I don’t use apps like whatsapp or skype because they sell my data and don’t trust them.

I was hoping for a foss alternative to talk to my parents, regular folk who need something easy to set up on their android devices, ideally through fdroid.

I don’t want to reveal a real phone number because I don’t want ads from nobody.

I don’t need to see my parent’s faces, I just need to talk to them and maybe send files and lines of text.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    121·
    9 天前

    Delta Chat

    is an E2EE chat client that uses SMTP as underlying transport. Available on Linux, Android, MacOS, iOS, Wind.

    Excellent and polished.

    Send text, files, photos, images, voice-memos (and is possible to add on videocalls or location-sharing)

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    The email backend can be setup with a free account here:

    https://nine.testrun.org/info.html

    Or by using your own email server.

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    Can also install JitsiMeet as the integrated video-chat client.

    ArcaneChat is an alternative/expanded frontend client.

    * Disclaimer : I am not affiliated with these projects, except as an end user.