Any good mobile apps? I’d love to have a place to share updates with my friends like social media does. Integrated with XMPP makes it all the better I’d say.

Right? Although I’d love to communicate with everybody in my community and be reachable on the ready, do I really want to give up my values for people who don’t care to understand them? If you wanna contact me outside of face to face, then use what I use. And it goes for the other way around too. Not worth the stress.

Oh okay! Didn’t recognize the GNU in there. Was there a trademark issue in the past?

Yeah people have been talking (real life) about their breaks from it and thoughts on leaving the social media sludge whenever I say I don’t use that stuff. It’s refreshing, but I still reject sharing my number except for work and maybe a baddie every now and then. Wish I didn’t even need to pay for one even for how cheap it is.

Just an unrelenting FOSS agenda and weird aversion towards social media 😭

We still probably show up as green bubbles though. Might have given the baddies the ick.

I’ve been slimming down the services that I don’t personally feel the need to use. And Jellyfin is right around the chopping block. Started Jellyfin to replace costly streaming services. Only one person is using Netflix and that’s the only reason my parents are paying for it still.

What’s that? GNU-Jami?

Pretty much any encryption you can send over text. My favorite clients support PGP instead. But it’s up to the clients to implement envryption and not really the protocol I guess.

I think this post is a noteworthy response. Against Silos+Signal

Signal is a much better recommendation when leaving Telegram. And the OMEMO implementation concerns are something I need to consider. That unprofessional response from one of the devs is not a good look at all.

Though as a comment pointed out, control of servers is like the one main checkbox that I really need filled.

On the point about clients not being OMEMO by default or enforced. This isn’t the biggest issue for me. I’m not doing crimes, but I still wouldn’t want my saucy messages to be read by server admins or third parties. Whenever I message somebody, I confirm that they are the proper recipient and are using OMEMO. And the clients I found myself comfortable with all support PGP key use instead. (That would be Cheogram & Gajim if anyone was interested.)

This was a great read though, at least to me. It gave me some thoughts to consider.

I’m gonna look into what kind of threats these improper dependency versions and such might pose. Hopefully by now most of these issues have been resolved.

The biggest thing is getting people into the loop of “secure apps” before they really need it.

There two kinds of nerds. Ones that are actually curious to try new things, and ones that conform and sully the name. It’s like tech bros vs real IT professionals.

Such a benefit indeed. Like email, you can use any server and app. Except it has more instant messenging features.

We should definetly not make it a habit to store files for long on volunteer servers. :(

It can be tough trying to stick to good privacy and staying social. I can do it because I’ve set boundaries and have a passion for what I believe in.

If somebosy actually wants to contact me, they join a privacy friendly platform, or just take my email. Most people my generation do not use email for instant communication, and neither do I.

I’ve gotten myself to be someone people want to reach out to, almost entirely in an effort to promote/market FOSS. To be a likable, knowledgeable, and friendly resource. That’s how I managed to convert a lot of people. If I say anymore I really bet I could be identified from my post. 😆

Tough pursuits will never be a pipe dream. It just takes enough time and grit. And a little mojo.

That’s the part that makes me nervous. If I get a bunch of people locked on Signal, then they take away services or change how they run the servers, then it would be a hassle to move people to a completely new interface.