What is Snikket?
Snikket is a messaging app with a focus on privacy and ease of use.
To support your privacy, Snikket is fundamentally different to other messaging apps that you may be familiar with.
Most popular messaging apps are developed by large businesses who provide the service for free in exchange for gathering data about you and showing you ads. In addition, all your messages travel through internet servers operated by them.
Instead of a single large corporation controlling everything, Snikket is decentralized. It is built on a network of smaller independent providers. Everybody is able to choose a Snikket provider that they can trust and yet still communicate with anyone else in the network.
You/users have a choise. Use privacy invasive chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, etc for free or invest some time and/or money to self-host it or use their SaaS option. Either way, you’re far better than using WhatsApp. Signal is a very good option.
If you “don’t care about privacy because if have nothing to hide”, I recommend reading Means of Control by Byron Tau or just watch what ICE is doing with all the data Palantir is offering.
No no, I use Signal and it was difficult enough to get friends and family over. Many didn’t. But Signal has been the only messenger with enough pull.