Stop Using Encrypted Email
I agree with the points made here but based on my experiences I&#x27;ve not yet seen anything that could replace archaic solutions like email and SMS for me. Here&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve tried and why it&#x27;s failed:<p>(Note: This is an &quot;everything sucks&quot; type of comment but it&#x27;s solely based on my opinion and my experiences. I&#x27;m not trying to devalue the work of the people who made the respective solutions and I&#x27;m not trying to frame this as general truths. I&#x27;m sure a lot of what&#x27;s listed here just comes down to my specific circumstances.)<p>- Signal: Afaik it requires a smartphone (Android or iOS) and a phone number which are two things I don&#x27;t wanna be bound to. Additionally, last time I tried it, messages got noticably delayed and I didn&#x27;t recieve any notifications. I assume this is because I don&#x27;t have the Google Services Framework installed even though I checked and Signal should (?) work without it.<p>- WhatsApp: Metadata falls rights into Facebook&#x27;s hands so no thanks.<p>- Matrix+Riot: Message delivery was kinda wonky and slow when I tried it. Also it looks incredibly complex which means someone I communicate with will inevitably screw up just as described in the article.<p>- XMPP+Conversations: This actually looked like it works for a while. What drove me away from it in the end was that file transfer didn&#x27;t work for some reason in my environment as well as push notifications for some people I talked to. Presumably they ran a version of Android that mandates Firebase Cloud Messaging and Conversations doesn&#x27;t use that. We did not want to delve into debugging this further.<p>- other (mostly &quot;decentralized web&quot;) solutions: Message delivery was either unreliable, slow or it straight up didn&#x27;t work. (No hate on the dweb though.)<p>Email is kinda bad but so is everything else. What kind of solutions do y&#x27;all use and why? Is there some &quot;promised land&quot; I&#x27;ve missed?