I understand the skepticism, the owner evgeny is a right wing conspiracy person but it has actually already had a security review you might be interested in https://simplex.chat/blog/20241014-simplex-network-v6-1-security-review-better-calls-user-experience.html also because of the decentralised design it is easier to run a simplex relay than a matrix homeserver for example hackliberty.net runs private relays for simplex. All in all I think you’re right to be skeptical of a for profit enterprise but evgeny has said several times they have no intention to profit from user data, they recognise that privacy and anonymity is p much their only selling point so theyve said they want to make profit selling consultations and techniocal expertise to large corporations, kinda like how redhat “sells linux” i guess https://simplex.chat/blog/20240516-simplex-redefining-privacy-hard-choices.html as an anarchocommunist I dont agree with some of the views in this blogpost but I think reading it is a good way to dispell some of the skepticism
This is kind of black or white thinking to think that its only valuable to use simplex if every one of your contacts uses it. I think of digital privacy like plugging holes in a simking ship to some extent it doesnt matter if you dont get them all if you can bail water fast enough but the more you plug the better. I recommend the arguments in these videos as responses to “i have nothing to hide” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcqh0ZSza50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXIXozAsOE but if everyone you could possible ask to add you on simplex is thinking like this that they don’t want to be lumped in with criminals and what not then this is a disturbing trend that privacy is seen as suspicious