Here is a List of Public SimpleX Community run Servers.
It*s important to not only rely on the Servers which SimpleX Team runs, but to also manually add and use Community Servers to really create a decentralized Messenger. Right now almost everyone only uses the default selected servers.
I found this randomly.
I am not associated with this site in any way.
Good Servers I know, which are not yet in the List are:
You can also manually add more servers you know about.
There is a need for Registries sites like this one.
I hope in the future there this or other sites will develep to something like https://monero.fail/.
One question I still have is this: If you have Private Routing settings on “always”, and you only have the default SimpleX Servers selected which can route your traffic, then what sense does it make, if all the SMP Servers are owned by one Entity. Then SimpleX Operator can literally see your IP and the IP the messages are being send to, because its only an 2 hop Onion Routing.
In settings it says: "To protect your IP Adress, private routing uses your SMP servers to deliver messages. "
But all the SMP Servers are the default ones owned all by SimpleX. How can that protect the IP?
The idea behind Onion Routing is, that the different hops are run by different entities, which dont share data.
SimpleX then would only hide the IP Adress from the other person I am communicating with. But thats not a crazy new feature. If I chat with someone via Signal, they also dont get my IP, unless we make a direct Phone call and don*t use Signals Relay servers.
Does anyone else also see this issue?
Do remember that with simplex, your messages are end to end encrypted. This means any operator in the middle of your network path wont be able to read the message.
Also note that simplex does not have a global identity, each new contact is a new identity, which prevent contact linking. This goes for you, bit also for server operator. server operator cannot know to which user a message is destined when routing it.
From my understanding, your previous comment seems to imply strongly a point that is not valid. Fortunately there is a lot of documentation on simplex, that you can read on the website, specifically the blog part. Simplex is so different, they they need a lot of communication skills to explain how it works, and they are very good at it, if you take the time to read.
While I understand the sentiment about decentralization, simplex is still at the beginning. At least with this software, you do have a way yo host your private server, and configure your app to use it. That’s a good improvement…
For now, id recommend simply using the default servers and establish a community first, then we can push for a bigger decentralization network later.
The nice thing is, you can start early, and select alternative server for yourselves to receive your message.
I’ve been able to convince 5 people, not including putting it on my kids tablet, to download SimpleX. Hopefully I can get more of my circle to. I enjoy it so far. Some things people need to be aware of, though, like local storage vs server, i.e., they need to clear space from time to time. Notifications also need work, but they are working on it apparently, because it drains too much battery.
I believe SimpleX mitigated the risk by adding the Tor network layer option via socks proxy. I think of SimpleX of having multiple security/anonymity layers, and you get to choose.