Yesterday when I browsed Waku's idea board and found this note: numerous traditional chat applications have already harnessed Waku’s capabilities. To truly innovate and avoid re-inventing the wheel, we encourage hackers to explore untapped possibilities and unique projects that integrate Waku in other novel ways apart from chat.
So true.
To date, we have so many privacy-focused messaging tools here with us. From popular chat like signal (with 70m activie users per month) to exlusively and extremely private ones for whistleblower like Berty and Briar.
Too many. Finding a good privacy-protection tool can be more painful than knowing big techs hold our data.
I can list a few of them here:
- Briar
- Berty
- Cwtch
- Wire
- Session
- Jami
- Conversations
- Molly
- SimpleX Chat
- Tinfoil Chat
- Cinny
- CoyIM
- Element
- Speek
- Sipnetic
- Serval Mesh
- Ricochet Refresh
- Berkanan
- Adamant
- Status
- Pidgin
- Silence
- dIM Chat
- Safe Text
- Delta Chat
And another 30+ more lies in my privacy library, oof.
This Privacy-focused chat market is already a red sea (in Chinese, red sea means a highly competitive industry).
Echo with Waku: Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, seriously.