Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg, and Bill Gates VC is behind #SimpleX? 😅 are we sure about the direction this is headed?
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seriously?!
Do you have a link to confirm this? 🐶🐾🫡
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor listed
It's fully open source and anyone can run their own server, it's legit.
Thank you! 🐶🐾🫡🫂
Frfr?
Just for posterity, here is the link to VC’s site! 🐶🐾🫡
Village Global VC | Early-Stage Venture Capital with Top Entrepreneurs
Village Global backs early-stage startups with funding, mentorship, and networks from some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and inves...
Source?
what if you aren't running your own server? I just downloaded the app
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-chat
Village Global is their only investor
The default servers are all through Tor which also gives good privacy assurances.
You can use my server, many Nostriches are on it
smp://QkpDEFx-YSXMDQQ4N-9D7MPo5D1uglgY4aVFvRw5Zzo=@smp.utxo.one
Thanks that's very generous.
Is it wise to join just anyone's server or should one use discretion?
What are the risks?
I have a knowledge gap here! Thank you!
Wait, what?
Thank you! So what do you think?
I’m surprised this is coming out now I would’ve thought they would say when making the product
good eye haha
bad PR for the due to complete lack of alignment in goals on the user and the funding side
I keep an open mind until proven that it’s time to pivot.
I’d love to know more about this as well 👀
I don't know enough to say for sure, but as far as I can tell servers can't see your messages or metadata even if they tried, that said I only use servers from other Nostriches, @jascha runs one too which I use
apologies for the shocking grammar, kept on rephrasing it to get my point across better
n July 2022 SimpleX Chat raised a pre-seed funding from the VC fund Village Global - its co-founder Ben Casnocha was very excited about our vision of privacy-first fully decentralized messaging and community platform, both for the individual users and for the companies, independent of any crypto-currencies, that might grow to replace large centralized platforms, such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
Village Global is here:
SimpleX Chat: vision and funding, v5.0 released with videos and files up to 1gb
Village Global VC | Early-Stage Venture Capital with Top Entrepreneurs
Village Global backs early-stage startups with funding, mentorship, and networks from some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and inves...
Nobody noticed but you 😉 🫂💜
🤣🤣 I thought it was perfectly worded
i’m big on bettering my grammar and increasing my vocabulary, as it helps me describe my thoughts in more detail 💜
so i’m kinda tough on myself with that 😅🫂
y’all are too kind, just let me be tough on myself and have high standards, will you? 🤣💜
Me too. All good my friend. As long as it’s constructive 🚧
i overwhelm myself quite a lot with that, so the “good enough” part is something i’m still constantly learning to acknowledge 💜
🤔 evilcorp it seems
Such ecorp vibes! Good one!
We even have our own Mr E here 😅
Which one is your Mr. E?
the one and only, Will and Vanessa’s kid
perfect arc
All this things usually start innocent, but we never know where it may lead. Since it is open source, I am less concerned. 🐶🐾🫡
The Arcade Labs dev did tell me he doesnt like SimpleX chat implementation so is building his own end-2-end encrypted group chat app. Not sure what he meant by that.
@jack curious on your thoughts about this
It’s part of the process, embrace it 🫂💜
But it does make me wonder even more about the app name 😅
@BitLo has some theories 😂
Is English your first language?
most definitely not, surprised that people haven’t picked up on that already 😅💜
it’s open-source code where you can verify what you’re using so i don’t think it really matters
WTF?
💯
Who’s going to verify it though? Do you really trust those ppl have good intentions?
Haha.. Oh what a winner..
But I was sure it was..
So it's not my English others do make a mess as well.. 😂😂😉💕
I can't see anything
Same here
Neither can I 🤔
Gif isn’t loading 🤷🏻
🤲Semble dominante alors qu'il devrait pas l'être compte des +8 millards d'invidus sur cétte🌎
Even primal can’t open it 😢🎻
Can’t do that mate
I’ll try again 😂
🙏👏
ok
i promise 
🤣🤣 not even lying I had multiple customers tell me this only for them to keep on doing this
i would never 💜👀 
never heard of this 🤔
Oh you right 🤣🤣 the most trustworthy place there is
congratulations ser 💜😂 
One of my favorites
The gif is “perfect down to last minute details”
👏🤣🤣
🤣💜🫂
C'est terrible ces financeurs qu'on devrait leur motivation...c'est co/me l'a ruée vers l'or ave# maîtres du nouveau Monde
Well Jack promotes it!
lol hmm… hopefully nothing world-domination-y 🤣
and look what happened to twitter - not really a good track record lol!
James, Jack has said multiple times that he has many regrets over Twitter ect
I’m not in his corner by any means, I am just watching from the sidelines however I feel everyone deserves a 2nd chance so let’s see.
I was trying to be a bit tongue in cheek 😉
However, if he learns from his mistakes then that's great.
In regards to simpleX I'll wait, like you!
For private convos I tend to use xmpp.
💜🫂
NIP-112
XMPP is open source code, with open standards and many implementations... And decades track record
Trail of bits completed a full code audit last year. Malicious or just poor code can still get added in after that but one would hope that security focussed maintainers would have their eye on this sort of thing.
I've learned they are a 'lending partner' aka no operational control
@jack thoughts?
I’m still waiting from them to answer that 🤔🤔
@Séimí Mac Síomón Did they answer you?
I was just reading about a few different cases where crypto projects got audited and they still got hacked.
It's impossible to guarantee security. It's possible that the audits were shoddy, that the devs added malicious code intentionally or unintentionally post audit or that there was just some new exploit.
Ultimately the money invested from the glowing sources paid for a fairly reputable firm to audit the code but secure comms is always going to be a target.
Of all ppl that could’ve invested, those are some of the most sus possible. Maybe they’re just being good guys but come on lol.
It was confirmed by esp himself 👍