I really like the idea of creating a decentralized network that has a fair monetization model built right in, instead of relying on donations like the Fediverse. Crypto got a very bad rep, but this kind of stuff is exactly what it’s good for imo.

It also has some core features that are missing from other similar messengers, like multi-device sync. And lastly, the devs seem pretty capable and open as well. They are very transparent with their work and seem to have the right ideas about where things should go and which trade-offs to make. E.g. their reasoning for not using the Signal protocol seems solid to me.

So I’m hopeful, but time will tell if it all works out.

When I last looked it over (maybe a year or so ago) these problems stood out:

• Immature code base.
• Custom onion network that seemed unlikely ever to have enough users to be very effective against attacks.
• Small limit on chat group size. (I think they have raised it from 10 to 100 more recently.)
• Small limit on media attachment size.
• Desktop support appeared to be an Electron app. (I avoid those because they’re incredibly wasteful of resources, and often suffer from Electron’s many bugs.)

Its design showed some neat ideas, but it was not practical for my needs.

Also, I have read more recently that Session removed forward secrecy, which rather undermines its value proposition.

The session developers are interesting. But I don’t recommend anybody use session.

They took the signal protocol, and removed perfect forward secrecy because they found it hard to implement.

That’s crazy.

Also all of the file transfers on session go through servers in Canada. Centralized.

I give them kudos for trying to make the network self-sustainable through their crypto thing, but they never found a way to actually monetize it, there’s no paper use, it feels like the idea is kind of dead in the water at this point. I would not recommend session for any serious non-experimental usage

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I was one of their strongest advocates, but their progress is unbearably slow. SimpleX for example has advanced a lot more in the same timeframe.
To me it seems like at the current pace they will need another two to three years to solve their problems.

I use it, it works pretty good tbh.

I wouldn’t see a reason to use Session over SimpleX

I really do wonder why more people aren’t using Delta Chat.

Anyway. I remember using Session for a few months a couple of years ago. Something about the interface was bugging me. It felt sluggish.

I use it for our family chat. It’s okay. The biggest issue is sometimes messages are delayed (up to half-an-hour at times). Other than that, it’s fine. It meets our needs.

My opinion: it’s good. I would use it on a daily basis if someone would ask me to text on it with her. But I’d never ask someone else to use it because there are, in my opinion, better options like matrix and signal which I mandate people to use.