Daniel Gultsch1d ago

I’m happy to announce the 12th annual Holiday season Conversations giveaway. 🎄☃️

The federated instant messaging client is now available for free on Google Play until New Year’s Eve. 🧨🎆

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Enjoy #39C3.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse

Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play

Federated instant messaging for your mobile device (Jabber, XMPP, Snikket)

Show threadDebacle5d ago

@maikel @surfhosting

#Spanish is the most-spoken EU language worldwide, so #Conversations_im should have a translation.

@daniel, is there e.g. a #weblate instance or similar, where the #freeSoftware and #Jabber community could help?

Show threadkundu 🌱🔻🐧5d ago
@tuskun @lrvick I like the last part. A unified ecosystem of xmpp apps in different platforms (in terms of UI and UX ) could help bring people to this solution. Wouldnt it be great if #Conversations_im , #monocleschat , #gajim , #monal etc, decided to partner somehow and unify criteria?
Show threadDaniel Gultsch5d ago

I consider this a failure on our part but I don’t really know what to do about it. Most arguments against #XMPP don’t hold if you’re building from scratch anyway:

• #Conversations_im looks very outdated: OK, but you are developing your own clients anyway.

• XMPP doesn’t have an SDK: Neither does your #ActivityPub or email stack

• OMEMO is insecure and I would prefer #MLS: Yes, let’s work on that together and you’ll still benefit from XMPP’s 100+ solved IM problems.

Show threadF-DroidDec 12
@biline #XMPP never left, see what #ejabberd #prosody #snikket #openfire servers are up to. #Conversations_IM #Cheogram #monoclesChat will serve you as modern clients on #FDroid and #Monal for your fruit devices fans.
Daniel GultschDec 8
If a friend bought the #39C3 ticket for you and sent the .pkpass file via #XMPP, those files are now properly identified in #Conversations_im and display with a nice icon instead of a generic unknown file icon.
Show threadDaniel GultschDec 7

@foss_warn Seems like this release broke compatibility with #Conversations_im again?

Previously this was due to the relatively long URLs that Conversations uses but I was under the impression that this had been fixed.

Daniel GultschNov 30

RE: https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

„The features matter a lot less than the people who are using the platform. […]

It can sometimes be a bit misleading when you get a lot of ideas and feature requests in a community, and the conversations become, ‘We definitely need feature X to grow because that’s what’s stopping people from using the platform.‘ While that’s true in some cases, the sad reality is that any flaw can be overlooked as long as the people you want to reach are there.“

This feels true for #Conversations_im as well.

Daniel GultschNov 23

Fortunately, getting killed by the CIA by means of predator drone strike is not everybody's threat model. For others - certain French judges for example - a real threat can be getting sanctioned by the US government and completely locked out of US services.

So yes, know your threat model when picking between #Signal and #Conversations_im.

Show threadF-DroidNov 14
@metaphil @unifiedpush @nextcloud @mozilla Even #Conversations_im can be a distributor 😉