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Why I like Wire in this regard, they seem to have their front-end and back-end open sourced. I believe their servers AGPL licensed, but it still allows you to run your own instance. Sadly people are highly more likely to use either Signal or KeyBase than Wire, which I think is my favorite since it doesn't tie you to a phone number (tip: register from the desktop first), and you can delete all your account information.

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I also use and like Wire for the same reasons.

I use all I have listed, I like the UI for KeyBase the most personally especially the way it handles social proofs where you need to verify yourself through a crypto key or another device. I wish Signal would just do this, but it's too married to phone numbers that it's suspicious in that simple regard. I use Signal with my wife, so for us to verify our keys it's very easy and simple.

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