/e/ OS and Graphene OS are having trouble with certain banking apps already because “it’s not the original firmware” or something. Some people have reported contacting their banks and explaining how to add exceptions for the specific ROMs, but banks don’t give a fuck.

I was hoping instead of emulating a “safe” phone, that there would be some way to modify the application for it to never make the safety request.

Did that not exist on telegram? How did telegram manage it?

Why is matrix a cesspool? What makes it more of a cesspool than telegram?

Psst lookie here

If you’re looking for an alternative, there’s a piracy chat on signal :) Currently 118 members. Small but growing

Then create a simplex group and invite everybody there.

Sometimes, but that’s it. Authorities and signal itself can only say “this number has account with us since $signupDate and used it last on $usageDate”. Signal can’t say “we know $number is talking to $otherNumber” nor can they say “$number is in $group talking to $users”.

Signal is a walled garden?

2500$ for a slab of silicon with chewed on apple ain’t much better lol

Feel free to create the chat rooms and share them as a post :)

Which ones do you suggest?

Travel across the border where you can? Ask a friend abroad to send you a SIM card? Maybe even find a service to buy a SIM from?

Go ahead and create the group then make a post. Nobody’s holding you back my friend.

Same in a few other European countries. I’m doing it right now with a few SIMs. You can also go on holiday to another country, get a few temporary SIMs there for a few quid and fly back home with the “contraband”. Really not hard.

Feel free to make a post about it. Very few will see it here otherwise :)

What are the “popular” alternatives? Telegram stores everything, WhatsApp doesn’t allow usernames, Matrix requires IPs too…

Make it and share it. I don’t have simplex.

Signal doesn’t collect IPs and therefore can’t even hand them out. It’s been requested in 2021. Here’s a list of requests from authorities they were allowed to publish. I’ve looked through 3 of the most recent and nowhere do they reveal IPs.

For fun and games in the cockpit?