I'd like to talk about how we built #Prav iOS app to demonstrate #FreeSoftware development need not be restricted to programmers.

A common misunderstanding people have is about their inability to modify software beyond asking/demanding or just donating to projects.

In Prav, community prioritized building an iOS app through a feature poll. We then raised funds to hire an iOS developer.

Finding a developer was the hardest part, but it does not involve any technical skills. #OpenSource

Do you love #XMPP and have some time to dedicate to it? and you don't mind Google paying you a few thousand US dollars while doing it, consider implementing cross signing in @prav as part of Google Summer of Code.

See https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/V6nDcrMy6b+2+cIIFXZUF5pO/

If you are an #android/#java developer consider joining as a co-mentor as well.

It is very frustrating when people can't decrypt some messages when people in a group adds new devices. It is one of the top priority features of #prav community.

@prav hopes to challenge the sim binding order with help from @sflcin

https://prav.app/blog/prav-and-sim-binding/

Though we will still have to comply since the court may take its own time to stay or even hear it.

Our last challenge against IT rules is still pending.

#prav #xmpp #simbinding #WhatsApp #Signal

Democracy is dead! Privacy, wtf!!

Where does the Indian, so called leaders and govt officials get such brain hacks from? They have a tendency of not checking things, & pushing useless rules & policies every single day.

#prav will get into this as well, just like any other app with SIM binding. A real nonsensical mindset of the policy makers.

https://prav.app/blog/prav-and-sim-binding/

#boycottuselesspolicies #senselessleaders #bleedingdemocracy

So, in couple of hours 2025 will end..

This post is an ongoing tradition of mine that I do at the end of each year.

- Met many new amazing & crazy people
- Gave my first conference talk. (o^▽^o)
- Started volunteering at Prav cooperative #prav
- #emacs , yes
- yep, failed alot again, like alot...
- Got introdcued to #guix , started using it and contributing to it
- Started participating in the Floss community.
- #mentalhealth is kinda okay, but still need care
- Got introduced a million new things (yeah, I am pretty dumb)
- Started learning #guitar ( I can play simple barre chords now :)
- Helped organise bunch of events ( I am good at tnis...)
- #books , #indeweb , #fedi as usual.
- Had many shitty days ( 2025 was bad on many aspects )
- Got a #keitai :)
- Rebased two years worth of changes in an android.. (yes I am proud of this little thing ) #git
- Still learning to program ( _How can I one be so bad they didn't learn it in one year?_)
- started learning #Japanese ( I currently just know Hiragana, Katakana and some phrases) and made a Jabber/Xmpp community around that .

The list will go on if I try to remember it again, but yeah, I won't do that. One of the things I want to do in 2026 is to meet new people and have many experience while learning and doing things. As that will be the year I will be out of college and need to take responsibility of things ( This is scary ).

The previous 2024 post was very short, because of the character limit....

https://ieji.de/@moksh/113747453170041579

#untrusemXoX

Automatically finding other #prav users is a core feature of @prav but in the last update this functionality was broken. We missed this during testing of the update.

I just added 2000 rupees to the bounty - we will give the money raised to anyone who fixes the issues.

Would you consider increasing the bounty? Small amounts are ok too.

https://prav.app/donate/contact-discovery-regression/

#xmpp #FreeSoftware #OpenSource