C'est pas libre mais c'est deja francais
WhatsApp aspire vos contacts, Telegram flirte avec l'opacité, Signal manque de fonctionnalités collaboratives. Face à ce triptyque insatisfaisant, une messagerie française chiffrée reverse la moitié de ses bénéfices à la reforestation. Depuis 2021, Treebal existe.
And so another week passes and I've a new post. Thankfully the web servers aren't block by default from providers, and hopefully this won't happen to instant message protocols, right?
Maybe this is something you want to read about, in this case, grab this link, some tea and enjoy:
https://jeferson.me/blog/2025/12/20/email-is-easy
#Email #Federation #Homelab #HTTP #InstantMessage #Ownership #Privacy #Protocol #Scams #SelfHosting #Spam #XMPP #Decentralization
I did a thing.
I found https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server and decided to set it up, Luckily the instructions are easy, and the result is available at chat.luap.lol
you will need an aim client.
There is no protection. You can log in as anyone, with any nick, and anyway. I guess I'll leave it like that for now, but i dunno how abusable such a thing is.
I'm logged in as luap right now!
Self-hostable instant messaging server compatible with classic AIM and ICQ clients. (Independently developed, not affiliated with or endorsed by AOL) - mk6i/retro-aim-server
5 Ways Delta Chat is Beats WhatsApp, Signal, & Telegram
With Facebook changing how WhatsApp works to profit off of users, many are switching to messaging apps Signal & Telegram
That's bit naïve given nothing stops #Signal & #Telegram from changing their policies or adding anti-features in the future
If you're not aware of places like the #Fediverse or FOSS communities, you probably haven’t heard of #DeltaChat
https://worldsage.org/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram/
#Cwtch Beta 1.3 is now available for download!
Featuring the new File Sharing experiment! Share files with both contacts & groups without a centralized file server.
#privacyMatters #socialnetwork #instantMessage #FileSharing #decentralized
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