Any othet alternative to telegram that is more open sourced , privacy ,security focused is available in fdroid etc.
Wanted to know if there are any other android apps with features like telegram such as sending ,recieving big files creating channels etc. Using a bot or channel in telegram to pirate movies and series are infinitely easier than torrenting . But as telegram is not fully open source and requires a phone number to create an account i am looking to see if there are any better alternatives which aldready does have a piracy ring like telegram . If you know any share . I am asking this here because i think it is the right sub and i can't find an alternative anywhere on the web . If it isn't the sub for this i will delete the post if you request so in the comments.
Why fuck around with all that when you can go to the OG source(s) of the high seas?
IRC
This is where most of your content on NNTP & Torrents come from anyways. Start at Rizon and learn and hang out for a bit and you will see an entire world you never knew about open up to you. No it's not instant, no it's not as easy as a commercial app and an email address login, but it's DEFINITELY worth the effort. All and I do mean all of your content is there.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a chat protocol, and all IRC servers host chat rooms exclusively.
If you know where to go, you can find bots. You interact with them with private messages, commands like "!download ". Upon which the bot will create a DCC (direct client connection) with you and transfer whatever you requested.
Of course, lots of bots will enforce some sort of requirement on you, membership on some web site or some such.
Are there any obvious fire-and-forget solutions to hosting IRC servers for friends? With Mumble it's a simple sudo apt-get and you have your voice chat running, but at a first glance IRC seems to be a bit more involved, surprisingly so.
Who's chatting on bot channels? And if we're being pedantic then he should be on NNTP / alt.binaries. I mean he should be on NNTP anyways, but no one wants to cough up the coin for decent server access so I don't suggest it anymore.
Turns out i was wrong and IRC works almost like telegram (atleast a lemming told me (if that is what we are calling ourselves))so can anyone tell me some basics like is goguma agood client ? Which channels to follow etc
IRC works almost the exact same way, there are bots that you can use to request content. It seems like you're asking for suggestions only to shoot them down without even knowing what the suggestion is.
Torrenting also works really well as long as you have your client set up correctly - there are many, many YouTube videos about how to set up qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission, etc.
This post should be step 1 for you, no one is going to give you instructions because you didn't ask for them.
Matrix i guess, its a federated messaging protocoll. Flagship messenger app would be Element.
Sending large files would depend on the server you are on.
Simplex.chat is promising, with great privacy/anonymity concepts at its core:
no identifyer like a phone# or an email address needed
little to no metadata transiting by the server
identity management ("incognito" identities generated in one click when joining a group for instance, management of several identities), all database/client-side.
works with any server, through tor by default. different servers used to send/receive messages.
android/ios/linux-tui/linux-desktop/macos/windows versions available
in Haskell, so no node/electron shtf#ckery (just a different shtf#ckery... ;)) )
Signal is the best, honestly the tech is unbeatable. If you don't want to use a phone number, then Session is similar albeit with less robust encryption protocols.
They need to finally release the usernames feature. That will probably make it much more usable. At some point I managed to convince some of my friends to use signal, but ever since they removed sms support, even I don't use it.
They should have waited for usernames to remove the sms support.
I don't understand why the sms thing is such a big deal. Either use it or don't, as in, I use shitty sms android when I must buy the majority of my communications are done through signal. Sms is not secure and should be avoided.
Op regarding your edit, your title says privacy open source and security , it says nothing about for piracy. I'm aware we're on a piracy community, but that's not what your title said.