My friends and I are hosting a Linux and FOSS group chat to have some casual chat, help, and anything related to the topic really. We chose this platform to chat on to keep a privacy preserving way to engage with one another.

https://signal.group/#CjQKIBshKeuikl5HfagdB46bXpGOyQf_4cVvO3vUMs71DiB9EhDEbE8mS3EPYL0e9CQWHBsy

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Having a public chat group inevitably devolves into an endless waterfall of messages. I dunno how you do it. I can barely stand being a group with 5 people.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'm also pretty sure Signal has a low cap on users per group -- to do real encryption you're inherently blasting all X users' public key to all X users, AFAIK, nobody is really doing real encrypted group chats for mass audiences, although we do live in infinite compute world, so maybe I'm not up to date.

[–] elements@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

the cap is 1000 per group but this group will not ever get to that size. also your latter statement is misinformed. all messages are still e2ee regardless of how many connections you make

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean like 10k+ users by "mass audience," ala Telegram. As far as I am aware, nothing will do a channel that large and actually encrypt e2e.

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