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messaging_apps [2026/06/16 00:08] particlesmessaging_apps [2026/06/16 00:09] (current) – [Messaging apps] particles
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   - Wire: Bad. Sluggish.   - Wire: Bad. Sluggish.
   - Viber: Bad. Sluggish.   - Viber: Bad. Sluggish.
-  - Instagram: Insecure. Very fluid, though. Middling feature set. 
   - Facebook Messenger: Middling feature set.   - Facebook Messenger: Middling feature set.
   - QQ: China only. Kinda overloaded app. Kind of sluggish. Overall nice social features. Very well-built.   - QQ: China only. Kinda overloaded app. Kind of sluggish. Overall nice social features. Very well-built.
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   - Matrix: Unstable, doesn't work reliably, servers are either paid or non-performant.   - Matrix: Unstable, doesn't work reliably, servers are either paid or non-performant.
     - One of my friends, who self-hosts a Matrix server, invited me to a Matrix chat, only to miss my first four messages due to decryption failure(!) in 2026(!)     - One of my friends, who self-hosts a Matrix server, invited me to a Matrix chat, only to miss my first four messages due to decryption failure(!) in 2026(!)
 +  - Instagram: Insecure. Very fluid, though. Middling feature set. One of the only apps to ever remove E2EE messaging by force from the entire userbase. Demoted to last place based on principle. No web/desktop client at all.
  
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