I'm still thinking about #Matrix and #XMPP. I like both, but it makes me sad how XMPP is so undersupported. It seems like it would be less complex and more efficient. But maybe I'm wrong.
Yes, this stuff is really complicated. I agree, that both Matrix and #XMPP are complex (in different ways), and the people who invented those protocols are not stupid — they implemented all the complexity for reasons.
And how cumbersome email is nowadays! When I started using email, there was no TLS, no PGP, no MIME, no DKIM, no SPF, no DMARC, no other encoding than 7-bits ASCII. To send a picture, we had to uuencode it and paste the result in the email. Wow!
If you like Conversations, the XMPP client, FOSS, for Android, do not hesitate to support Daniel Gultsch, its maintainer.
"Daniel Gultsch is the maintainer of the Android Jabber client Conversations. In addition to that he develops various tools that aim to improve the Jabber ecosystem like the Compliance Tester or the Server Status Monitor."
#Telegram habe ich nun gelöscht. Das immer schon damit einhergehende ungute Gefühl wollte ich nicht länger ertragen. #Signal wird wohl auch noch vom Gerät fliegen. Fällt mir natürlich leicht, weil beide ungenutzt sind. Wer will sich schon mit mir unterhalten? 😉 #Threema werde ich vorerst behalten. Weil mir bekanntlich Datenschutz wichtig ist, habe ich wieder ein #XMPP Konto eingerichtet. Mal sehen, ob es je zur Anwendung kommt 😊
#Jabber funktioniert bei mir u.a. gut, weil ich es im Freundeskreis aktiv beworben habe. Mein Argument war: Du erreichst mich entweder per #XMPP oder gar nicht per Chat. Ohne das hätte es leider fast niemand genutzt. Untereinander nutzen sie nach wie vor Whatsapp und Telegram.
Bei Android-Users, die kein Problem mit einem rufnummerbasierten Dienst haben, hat sich #Quicksyhttps://quicksy.im/ von @daniel als Wundermittel erwiesen.
One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.
Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.
#Streams galaxy
-- note 1: communication with the Fediverse is standard practice in this universe.
#Hubzilla galaxy
-- note 1: developed a way to communicate across the Mycelial Web (a.k.a. the multiverse). Can also communicate with BlueSky and diaspora.
#Friendica galaxy
-- note 1: developed a way to communicate across the Mycelial Web (a.k.a. the multiverse). Can also communicate with BlueSky and diaspora.
#X#Twitter Mycelium (closed borders; isolated; have not discovered there are other mycelium/universes besides their own)
#Tumblr Mycelium (closed borders; isolated; rumours has it their government decided against connecting with the other mycelium/universes, but they are aware)
#Flickr Mycelium (closed borders; isolated; aware of other mycelium/universes)
I need a #XMPP#Jabber server to test Spades with so I'm about to set up the server for blakes.dev (and blakeslabs.com). I'd like to use Metronome but I'm not sure if or how well it works with Docker¹. Prosody doesn't support MIX (a must for me) and it's also old, crusty, and you know, replaced by Metronome. So now I'm looking at Ejabberd² which doesn't seem to have a community modules system so I don't think I can (easily) extend features onto it, like MIX-MUC, the way Prosody (and Metronome) could. I believe there's also Openfire which I've seen is also behind on features (it doesn't support XEP-0050 Blocking Command?).
I'm probably going to set up Ejabberd but some advice would be appreciated.
¹ I'm using Docker to manage all my shit, like how most of us nerds use Kubernetes. Isn't K8s used for multiple-server servers? I'm only running one VPS, so it's not that useful for me.
² They said they were adding Matrix support some time back. That would be very useful to me. I don't see any mention of it in the docs or even the source code though.
Lauschangriff auf russischen Jabber-Server in Deutschland: Wer steckt dahinter?
Rein zufällig flog auf, dass sich Unbekannte mit einem eigenen Zertifikat in Jabber-Chat-Verbindungen einklinkten. Die Betreiber vermuten eine Polizeiaktion.
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To reduce the risk of such attacks in the future an early stage service called CertWatch has been published by our Community: https://certwatch.xmpp.net/
I'm always amused by the lightweightness of #XMPP. I'm in the metro with virtually no signal, http can't even transfer headers and times out and I can hold a regular conversation over #jabber.
Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:
“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”
For the fun of it, you could install your own #Jabber server, e.g. #snikket by @snikket_im and the #slidge gateway by @nicoco. It's a whole set of #XMPP transports, not only for Signal, but also for Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Mattermost, Steam, Skype, Facebook Messenger, and Matrix.
I guess it's an #UnpopularOpinion but here goes: Maybe it would be better if #Mastodon simply removes the DM/Private Mentions "feature" altogether. In its current form it's effectively kinda useless. It's insecure, it doesn't feel well integrated, it feels like bolted on but not as a natural part of the experience.
@jwildeboer
Or better integrates click-through links to #Jabber or #Matrix, with for example plugins for integrated Jabber overlay chats. They exist and could be quite easily integrated as a plug-in. @glynmoody