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by pasdechance 1263 days ago
> I want my private messages to never be seen or recovered by anyone

That might be hard, you know, because of screenshots.

I am not at all a pro on this, but if you look at the track record of some of these options you might be able to come to a conclusion. Signal, for example, has been subpoenaed a number of times and likes to repeat that they know about first and last connection, and that's it. But, Signal uses a phone number for registration, so some people might be put off by that.

Matrix is used by some government bodies (in France, I beleive), but you might want to host your own server (I don't know if admins have access to messages or not).

Briar "doesn't rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices." [1]

Cwtch is one I've never heard of, but I like the buzzwords mashup of "decentralised P2P Tor Onion routing metadata resistant"

Session also proposes variation on that theme, and doesn't ask for a phone number.

I feel like this is a tough question that is up for debate.

[1] https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/home