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Written by Soatok Dreamseeker on 2025-01-15 at 04:24

Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork)

Last year, I outlined the specific requirements that an app needs to have in order for me to consider it a Signal competitor. Afterwards, I had several people ask me what I think of a Signal fork called Session. My answer then is the same thing I'll say today: Don't use Session. The main reason I said to avoid Session, all those months ago, was simply due to…

http://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/

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Written by September on 2025-01-15 at 16:13

@soatok Session messenger also has connections to the alt-right scene. That should already be enough reason not to use it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210914000446/https://twitter.com/WPalant/status/1281540005190672384

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Written by BohwaZ on 2025-01-15 at 19:04

@Septem9er @soatok If I understand things correctly, Session is no longer using Lokinet, so there is no connection to this guy anymore. But I might be wrong.

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Toot

Written by Soatok Dreamseeker on 2025-01-15 at 19:07

@bohwaz @Septem9er According to https://oxen.io/session-lokinet and https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asession-foundation%2Fsession-android%20oxen&type=code it's still pretty baked-in.

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Written by BohwaZ on 2025-01-15 at 19:16

@soatok @Septem9er Ah right. I've read that they were migrating out of Oxen: https://getsession.org/blog/upgrading-to-session-network

But that might not be done yet. It's hard to know, as there's little public communication.

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Written by BohwaZ on 2025-01-15 at 22:07

@soatok @Septem9er Interesting post on the Loki network: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/lokinet.html

That person seems to have understood the same thing as me: server operators participating in the network cannot get real money from the cryptocurrency used for this network, so I don't really see how this cryptocurrency can be useful in any way… Very weird.

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