Mastodawn

There is a tiny trigger in the original post, that is hard to ignore, though: The words "de-bigtech" and Signal together 😉

Signal is (according to themselves) inextricable from AWS and Google. It depends on #bigTech. That shouldn't be an excuse to derail questions, but it needs self-discipline 🙂

That being said, #Jabber/#XMPP might be a solution for the Signal desktop use case, with a (self-hosted?) #slidge gateway. Probably not easy.

https://slidge.im/

slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks

Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.

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Axel

4h ago

@kuketzblog @daniel
Bei Monal wird, wenn der Server AV-Calls nicht beherrscht, sogar der Monal-Server für den Call als Fallback angeboten. Hier also definitiv: grün.

@kuketzblog
So, wie es aussieht, hatte #Conversations_im von @daniel ein neues Audit: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/114312670870760858

Außerdem würde ich bei #Monal und #Conversations_im Audio-/Videocalls grün machen, da die vorausgewählten Server der App (und die Apps) dieses beherrschen.
#XMPP

Daniel Gultsch (@[email protected])

A big thank you to Radically Open Security for performing the audit and to @[email protected] for funding it. Radically Open Security has been a long term partner of #Conversations_im ever since they did the first #OMEMO audit back in 2016! Recent audit: https://conversations.im/2025_audit_conversations.pdf OMEMO audit: https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf

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Kuketz-Blog 🛡4h ago

Werft mal einen Blick auf die Messenger-Matrix. Trotz aller Bemühungen kann es sein, dass nicht alle Informationen zu den Messengern aktuell sind. In diesem Fall bitte ich um Rückmeldung, damit ich die Matrix anpassen kann. ❤️ 👇

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix.html

FAQ: https://codeberg.org/kuketzblog/www.messenger-matrix.de#wissenswertes-zur-matrix-faq

#briar #conversations #xmpp #deltachat #discord #element #matrix #facebook #google #imessage #jami #line #session #signal #simplex #siskin #skype #telegram #teleguard #threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

Messenger-Matrix • Kuketz IT-Security Blog

Messenger: Vergleich sicherheits- und datenschutzrelevanter Eigenschaften von Messengern

The Fulcrum (backup)4h ago

The Fulcrum 10 April, 2026

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-fulcrum-10-april-2026/ #ActivityPub #astro #ATProto #BackdropCMS #Bear #Bonfire #Codefloe #CSS #Decidim #DWeb #EmDash #FDroid #FediLab #fediverse #Ghost #Holos #HTML #HTMX #JavasScript #Kdenlive #LAUTI #Linux #OMN #PWAs #RSS #WebAwesome #WordPress #WriteFreely #XMPP #xWiki

adb 5h ago

I am very sorry for you to need to cope with this:

the best option for private chatting TODAY when it comes to #security, usability/user-friendly, #resilience, #digitalindependence and #freedom is #DeltaChat a chat app that uses #SMTP + #IMAP at its backbone, not your favorite "perfect" chat protocol, you don't need new better protocols, you need tools that actually work for the people

#xmpp #matrix #simplex #signal