Sorry not sorry for the ecology spam

"What haunts us in such myths of disintegration are not their histories, but their prophecies. Like the Norsemen, and perhaps even more, like the people at the close of the Middle Ages, we sense that our world, too, is breaking down — institutionally, culturally, and physically. Whether we are faced with a new, paradisical era or a catastrophe like the Norse Ragnarok is still unclear, but there can be no lengthy period of compromise between past and future in an ambiguous present. The reconstructive and destructive tendencies in our time are too much at odds with each other to admit of reconciliation. The social horizon presents the starkly conflicting prospects of a harmonized world with an ecological sensibility based on a rich commitment to community, mutual aid, and new technologies, on the one hand, and the terrifying prospect of some sort of thermonuclear disaster on the other. Our world, it would appear, will either undergo revolutionary changes, so far-reaching in character that humanity will totally transform its social relations and its very conception of life, or it will suffer an apocalypse that may well end humanity's tenure on the planet."
-Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin

I'll summarize Matrix (https://matrix.org) because I highly believe it should be the communication platform of choice for everyone, and especially political or other minorities.

Matrix is a specification for how clients (like apps) should talk to servers, and how those servers should talk amongst eachother.

You can choose to sign up on any of the public servers, or even run your own if you have the means. You can then participate in rooms, even with people from different servers. Those communicate with eachother to make this possible.

Every server that participates in a given room has a copy of what has happened (insofar as they are allowed to read its history). This means that even if one server goes offline, all the users on other servers can still continue to talk in that room. If that server does come back online (internet works again, or it was restored from a backup), it will realize it's missing message from its absence and ask the other servers to send them again, at which point its users can fully participate in the room again.

Matrix also features proper end to end encryption

As Matrix is only a specification, you need to pick a client you will use to connect to the server you chose. Currently the only fully-featured client is Riot (https://riot.im) which is available for Web, Desktop (Electron), Android and iOS. Other clients are still in the works for all sorts of platforms, including my own project: Neo (https://neo.pixie.town)

The matrix specification also allows for seamless bridging to other chat software, through so-called appservice. They get a block of user accounts allocated to them (like @telegram_*) which they have full control over. The appservice can then use those to relay messages from the users on the other chat platorms

feel free to ask questions either from a user or technical standpoint if anything is unclear, I just typed these out stream of concious style on my phone

I’m in!