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.
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 is down! 😮
Wait, no, that's impossible.
#Signal is down: https://status.signal.org/
#decentralize folks!
Hammered out a little #python library for writing #xmpp bots! It's all new and shiny over at https://git.autonomic.zone/decentral1se/xbotlib
Didn't expect to open Hacker News and see the Prosody blog post on the front page 🙂
I really hope that the growing attention to the practices of big tech will push more people to discover #XMPP and other decentralized alternatives to those large platforms.
Posted the Prosody team's report on project progress through 2020: https://blog.prosody.im/2020-retrospective/
I'm excited for the year ahead in #Prosody and #XMPP in general 🙂
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/
The latest #WhatsApp news is part of a general trend where companies erode their own privacy policies over time. It is rare that you will ever see a privacy policy update that adds clauses in its users' favour.
These companies need more data to thrive and grow. It's how they work, it's their DNA.
I believe that only communication platforms with no central ownership can be trusted. That's why I'm working hard on @snikket_im. I already migrated my family to it, and it's going great!
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
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!