Installing Gajim on :apple_inc: macOS is now only a single click away. This release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files 🗃️ and support for link previews 🔗.
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Ok.
SO.
If you want chat history on a given client (device) for #XMPP where #OMEMO is used, you WILL have backups for that device.
#Conversations (#Android) saves that to the device.
SO, if you don't do "something" do get that backup to a "off device" location, if your device is stolen/destroyed, you will not have chat history.
At least it can be scheduled.
#GaJim (Desktop) does not seem to allow scheduling. But you CAN export chats.
Same caveat applies re theft/destruction
Still can't decrypt historic OMEMO encrypted messages with "new device".
This feels like a problem when somebody gets a new phone, for example. Can't unleash this on the family before I figure this out (ok, this and a bunch of other stuff still).
GaJim also allows message deletion, which Dino apparently does not.
Amongst many other things.
Me quise hacer el nostálgico y me instalé #pidgin. Yo lo usaba hace como 10 años atrás, cuando se podía conectar facebook menssenger a través de #XMPP.
La puta madre, que mal que envejeció Pidgin. Es horrible, saquenló de mi vista.
Enseguida volví a #gajim.
In a world in which anything 'weird' found on your chatlogs can potentially be used against you and the communities you are in on the media or even in court, I'd like to posit that it is important to not only have a secure personal computer and use encrypted services, but also ideally have those services be hosted by someone who can quickly delete all data associated with you.
Signal is neat because everything attached to you is only on your device, but ironically, this means that if you don't have access to your device before the people persecuting you get to it, then it isn't helpful to you.
On the other hand, if your Matrix admin finds out about your arrest and nukes the server, your persecutors are out of luck even if they manage to brute-force your laptop.
This release brings reorganized account settings 🔧, a brand new shortcuts manager ⌨️, more contact infos ℹ️, video previews 📺 , performance improvements 🚀, and many bugfixes.
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WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated#WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??
Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!
@dansup I've been slowly converting family and friends over to Signal for years now. Here's how usually I do that these days. When a conversation gets into some rather intimate topic - say talk on emotions, or psychology, or other highly private details - then I set a boundary, saying "I'd be willing to discuss this topic further, but only in a more private app like Signal." So I leave them an "out": I'm willing to stay on, say, WhatsApp, but the conversation has to stay more shallow.
I also run an #XMPP server (Prosody), but I've had very limited success in getting people to join. Frankly, XMPP is only for intrepid geeks at this time, who are willing to put up with several papercuts in usability. Apps like WhatsApp and Signal have "raised the bar" a lot, and apps like #Conversations and #Gajim have their work cut out for them to try to catch up to people's sky-high expectations - they've been spoiled.
A ton more testing and bug-fixing is still needed to iron out quirks that the different XMPP clients have, in talking to each other.
One of the worst aspects of Mastodon's plans to introduce quote-posts with a switch:
You keep having to tell Mastodon users that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon. That (insert a long list of Fediverse server applications here¹) have had quote-posts from the beginning. That they're all in the Fediverse. That they're all fully federated with Mastodon. That they can all quote-post any Mastodon toot they can possibly receive or import. And that they will be able to quote-post any Mastodon toot they can in the future, regardless of Mastodon account settings.
Up until this point, they were fully, firmly convinced that they're 100% safe from quote-posts on Mastodon. Either because they could not for the lives of them imagine that anything in the Fediverse has them. Or simply because they "knew" up until this point that the Fediverse is Mastodon. And if Mastodon introduces an opt-out or opt-in switch, this switch will mean absolute, 100% water-tight safety from quote-posts.
But for the Fediverse outside of Mastodon, the quote-post switch will be completely useless. Again: These lots of Fediverse server apps have had quote-posts before Mastodon introduced them. They had quote-posts before Mastodon invented the opt-in or opt-out switch. I mean, at least two of them have had quote-posts since before Mastodon even existed! So how are they supposed to support a proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-specific switch which probably won't be documented anywhere before Mastodon rolls out quote-posts?
I'll tell you what'll happen.
Mastodon users will deactivate quote-posts for their accounts or not activate them in the first place. Non-Mastodon users, not knowing about the status of that switch, will quote-post them regardless with zero resistance. Upon which these Mastodon users will shit brix. And they'll call for either blocking that obviously rogue Mastodon user instance-wide, or blocking that user's instance, or Fediblocking that user's instance.
At this point, someone else who is not on Mastodon either will chime in and tell them: That particular user is, in fact, not on Mastodon. The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. That user is on Friendica. No, Friendica is not a rogue Mastodon instance. Friendica is not Mastodon at all. No, Friendica isn't a Mastodon fork either. Friendica has nothing to do with Mastodon. In fact, Friendica is older than Mastodon. On Friendica, quote-posts are perfectly normal. Friendica has had quote-posts for longer than Mastodon has even existed. And so forth.
Cue the Mastodon user shitting brix again, foaming with anger and calling for a Fediblock of all of Friendica.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that if Mastodon's quote-post feature and the rest of the Fediverse disregarding it leads to more awareness of the non-Mastodon Fediverse and its non-Mastodon features on Mastodon, it will also lead to demands for being able to completely block everything that isn't Mastodon, either on an account level (and then on by default, of course) or on an instance level or both.
Oh, by the way: The ability to completely lock out entire Fediverse projects already exists in the Fediverse right now, too. It's exclusive to two other Fediverse server apps that aren't Mastodon, both of which introduced this feature in September.
¹Here's a probably incomplete list of still-active Fediverse server apps with quote-posts which, yes, can quote-post Mastodon toots right now and will be able to quote-post Mastodon toots regardless of opt-in or opt-out:
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Firefish
Sharkey
Iceshrimp
Iceshrimp.NET
CherryPick
Neko
Catodon
Meisskey
Tanukey
Metaskey
Mitra
Friendica
Hubzilla
(streams)
Forte
And both Threads and the Bridgy Fed Bluesky bridge support quote-posts, too.
(Inb4 both Oliphant and The Bad Space trying hard to catch all instances of the server apps mentioned above to blocklist them all.)
Any good Telegram alternative?
I tried SimpleX but the VPN kill switch on my phone prevents syncing with my computer. ...