Emberleaf

SimpleX is great, but it needs to mature a little in regards to usability. The desktop app is abysmally slow, and the amount of memory it uses really needs to be trimmed down. If they manage to streamline these two things, I could see SimpleX becoming quite popular. I’m definitely keeping an eye on it.

Signal would be the best choice, imho. Next best would be SimpleX for android or iOS. The desktop version is currently not great.

They can’t scan chats that don’t exist. Time to make a switch, folks!

Another vote for Mullvad, here. It’s arguably one of the best VPNs out there and at 5 bucks a month, you really can’t go wrong. If you want cheaper than that, you have bigger problems than a VPN.

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘hard to load’. You find the model you want, you download it, then load it up to chat. What’s the issue you’re having?

I found this and actually like it better than Alpaca. Your mileage may vary, but they claim that it’s 100% private, no internet necessary:

GPT4All

I’m sorry you feel that way. I’m afraid I disagree, but I respect your opinion.

I dunno. Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me, but your mileage may certainly vary.

Why is this news??

Wow! I didn’t know these folks existed! Thanks so much for the recommendation!

But there actually ARE left-wing ‘extremists’. I guarantee you’ve met at least one. They’re the ones who always seem to bring everything back around to some sort of armed conflict. They support all of the regular things that leftists support (at least verbally), but have a tendency to fetishize violence and are alllllll about the guns, man. They often express things like ‘acceptable losses’ and ‘wiping the slate clean’. These people DO exist, and they ARE dangerous to the general health and wellbeing of the public. These are the extremists that I think the APA is talking about.

Obviously, this does not mean that EVERY leftist is an extremist or dangerous to people, and I think the APA’s statement is very poorly worded.