MattJ @mattj@mastodon.technology

Instant Messaging: It's not about the app - #XMPP provides sovereignty of your communication

Read a comment in this blog post:
https://xmpp.org/2021/01/instant-messaging-its-not-about-the-app/

#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops the XMPP/Jabber instant messaging and voice/video calling standards. You can follow them at:

➡️ @xmpp

The official site is https://xmpp.org

It's a free open standard, so anyone can use it in their software and hardware.

#XMPP #Jabber #IM #InstantMessaging #Messaging #Messenger #FOSS #VOIP

New job ad for a Converse developer on http://xmpp.work

https://xmpp.work/job/startinblox-8-conversejs-developer/

Great opportunity for someone who wants to work with FOSS and standards.

I've worked with them before, can vouch for them and am available to answer questions and provide guidance.

#xmpp

Snikket is a new XMPP/Jabber-based decentralised FOSS messenger service. You can follow at:

➡️ @snikket_im

The official website is https://snikket.org

It aims to make XMPP into a more viable alternative to Whatsapp etc by providing consistency in design and terminology.

(It's sort of how Mastodon made ActivityPub more mainstream, by using consistency to make it clear the instances are part of one network.)

#Snikket #XMPP #Jabber #Messaging #Messenger #WhatsApp #IM #FOSS #SelfHosting

I'm considering making #mercurial native repos the default on the FOSS #heptapod public service https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net/-/issues/95

Tails natively ships with a #XMPP client. Currently Pidgin.
For security reason Tails is going to replace it.

New XMPP client that Tails is likely to natively install will be either @dino or @gajim

Some research about them and Tails requirements you can read here:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/replace_Pidgin/#candidate-alternatives
(keep in mind that it's a living paper)

RT @iNPUTmice@twitter.com

http://Quicksy.im user count has grown by more than 30% over the last two weeks.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iNPUTmice/status/1351613901104963592

Development Update: In December, the profile window received a complete rework, adding state of the art vCard capabilities and a brand new profile picture selector to Gajim. Furthermore, Chat Markers have been improved and some bugs have been fixed.

https://gajim.org/post/2020-12-28-development-news-december/

With all eyes on social media platforms’ influence on democracy, @rysiek gets to the crux: “the question isn’t really about how these platforms should wield their power — **the question is whether these platforms should have such power in the first place.**”

https://redecentralize.org/blog/2021/01/18/centralization-is-a-danger-to-democracy.html

#XMPP #embroidery

#Jabber #Sticken #Stickerei #FreeSoftware

Hammered out a little #python library for writing #xmpp bots! It's all new and shiny over at https://git.autonomic.zone/decentral1se/xbotlib

My wife used Jitsi for the first time yesterday and had nothing but good things to say about it. I told her I was planning on spinning up my own instance and she for once didn't roll her eyes at my nerdy project. That's definitely progress!

For those about to quit #WhatsApp you can consider https://quicksy.im/ which is behaving the same but using #XMPP decentralized protocol.

You can moreover access to you account from different softwares like https://dino.im/

Movim is a federated open source social media platform based on the open XMPP protocol

Movim simplifies the management of your news and your publications. So forget the ads, forget the superfluous. They designed an interface that really focuses on your content. In Communities you can publish and subscribe to various nodes on different topics. Just click on the Communities link in your menu and start exploring!
Movim relies on the XMPP standard and therefore allows you to exchange with many other clients on all devices such as Conversations (Android) or Dino (Desktop). Compatible with the others XMPP clients such as Conversations. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10e89914cb1130ff7654de10188b5c5dbb

Daily reminder that hanging out in irc/xmpp channels for your favorite free software projects and helping new users is a great way to contribute to free software.

Added a new page to our website with an overview of the project and its goals: https://snikket.org/about/goals/

May help answer "What is Snikket about?" for some of you!