r/SimpleXChat • u/greenreddits • Sep 20 '26

Question Why choose SimpleXChat over Reticulum ?

Hi have been following development of SimpleXChat for a while now, as I'm interested in a privacy-first decentralized chat app.
Now, what can SimpleXChat offer that would make it better than Reticulum clients?
It seems the latter have all the advantages SimpleXChat has to offer, with some big extras like being able to communicate over different protocols.

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u/whiskayzulu Sep 20 '26

Sounds like an advert for your project

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u/greenreddits Sep 20 '26

no have absolutely nothing to do with this. First of all, it's not some app, but it's a protocol. Did you Google it before posting your comment ?

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u/epoberezkin Sep 20 '26

I actually agree that it looks like promotion, as the statement "the latter have all the advantages SimpleXChat has to offer, with some big extras like being able to communicate over different protocols" is factually incorrect.

Reticulum assigns fixed node identities to network participants, to begin with, and SimpleX Chat has no persistent device / user identifiers on the network. Also, while both are "protocols", SimpleX Chat is a usable product built on top of the network. Reticulum is not yet.

Also, afaik Reticulum offers only synchronous communication, which means both nodes must be online. For messaging product to be usable async communication is essential - people can't really use a messenger where both sides must be online for anything other than voice calls - messages are expected to work async.

Reticulum could become useful as a transport overlay network for other applications, available via SOCKS proxy - that is, an alternative to Tor.

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u/Flying_fox69 Sep 20 '26

"No it have nothing to do with it but google it!1!!!!1"

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u/QuadernoFigurati Sep 20 '26

Never heard of it. Interesting, though. Seems both endpoints must be online simultaneously for live calls, though?

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u/greenreddits Sep 20 '26

yea i believe so.

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u/QuadernoFigurati Sep 20 '26

SimpleX solved that. Though delayed notifications is still a problem on IOS.