Okay, so... In light of all this government surveillance and hacking going on, I'm in search of a true proper fully anonymous, secure encrypted messenger. I tried to like Signal, but with the US Gov using it and it being infiltrated, I don't think I trust it, anymore.

(Don't worry. I'm keeping Telegram for all the folks who won't use anything else because they're Stockholm'd babies afraid of new experiences or refuse to use other apps because they're stubborn fussy brats. Just don't expect me to use it much because it's unsafe, AI-infested, and loaded with censorship bots.)

I also want to send in-line images and videos, and also other files to my friends, without an absolutely lame af size limit like 100MB or less. (Ideally, there should be no limit, or a very large limit like say, 2GB.)

The messenger can be either P2P or distributed/decentralized.

Element/Matrix looks okay but it's designed for business, enterprise, corporate, IT, and white collar office nerds who use things like Slack, Teams, Zoom, etc and need their whole communication system integrated into a single app.

Wire seems to be going this route as well.

Tox is a newer one, and seems to have the right idea about personal chat apps, but their own website states that it is unstable and being heavily developed so there will be lots of bugs and other issues.

Session looks like a great contender, but it's pathetic file size limit of 10MB is abysmal and completely unacceptable.

I'm running out of options, here.

If anyone has any suggestions, please share.

(and don't be a smartass and suggest that I code my own, because I can't and won't.)

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