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ranger_danger 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SimpleX Chat

> Why should somebody use this over any of the many alternatives?

- no phone number

- no account

- p2p via onion routing and public relay servers

- public and private file sharing systems via XFTP

miroljub 5 months ago [–]

> p2p via onion routing and public relay servers

All owned by two entities. I would buy their claim if they just used Tor or i2p as a transport layer, which are not that easy to control like a relay server farm owned by a single entity.

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