A question about different chat programs type the old msn messenger.

[Marie SWE]

Hello everybody

I wonder if there are any good chat clients nowadays? Type the old msn messenger where you can send files between each other, etc.
I know that Signal is good and encrypted. But ... it requires a phone number. I'm not interested in that.
Are there any encrypted chat clients that are anonymous? such as old msn messenger where you only registered an e-mail address.
Skype is to big and it's little to flashy.

Best regards Marie

 

[Botard]

Hi there Marie,

Have you try a chat client pidgin? I don't know about chat clients anymore since I used it once in 2008 in a global chat room of yahoo messenger. But I do know the pidgin is good because anonymous OS have it as a prebuilt package. It might be differ your anonymous connection in Windows, though. Also, you may find yourself interested changing your MAC address.