GoKawiilSimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding — to Preserve Freedom of Speech
Published: Apr 30, 2026
Freedom of speech needs infrastructure that protects it by design — not only the protocols and servers, but the governance and funding to support them.
SimpleX Channels — more public, more freedom, more private
v6.5 release brings SimpleX Channels: a new model for online publishing built for participation privacy.
Channel content is visible to chat relay operators. And each channel uses multiple relays, so no single relay can block the channel .
But the real identities of channel owners and subscribers are unknown to relay operators, to each other, and to the network. This is important for freedom of speech and for our ability to say the truth .
This is the opposite of the usual approach: instead of trying (and failing ) to hide publicly available content from operators while exposing participants, we designed the protocols to protect people. Anybody can join a public channel via its link and see what is sent, but not who sent it, and not who else is reading. This is win-win for both users and chat relays operators. Users' privacy is protected, operators can decide what content to deliver in public spaces, and anybody can run chat relays.
This is only possible because SimpleX network was built without user profile identifiers of any kind. You can't add participation privacy to a network that identifies its users — as you can't add privacy to a messenger built on phone numbers.
v6.5 is the first beta version of channels:
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