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   The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: (thraeryn@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 09:07:15 JST The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:

   Y'know how nice it is to message someone through my XMPP server, never once worrying that our messages will be intercepted? Knowing that they'll go "poof" in a couple of days anyway? That my little server is beneath most notice in the first place?

   I never get a message from my dentist, or the city, or some shitstain who bought a thousand-pack of target numbers and a hundred-pack of SIM cards. It's me and my friends. And, like ActivityPub, it's federated; they don't have to be on my server.

   XMPP isn't new and shiny. It's mature. It's robust. Those qualities, in most cases, should trump "new and shiny".

   It looks and acts like texting.

   I do not get why people keep looking for The New Secure Communication Method, especially ones brought to you by Capitalists.

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     The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: (thraeryn@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 09:07:14 JST The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:

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     I really wish folks would hold the motherfuck off trying to reinvent the "secure communications" wheel until it actually NEEDS a rework.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 09:09:35 JST silverwizard

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     • Madeline :antiverified:
     @maddiefuzz @thraeryn Matrix only on Linux now! It was defenestrated
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     Madeline :antiverified: (maddiefuzz@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 09:09:36 JST Madeline :antiverified:

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     @thraeryn I’m ready to defenestrate matrix.

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     Madeline :antiverified: (maddiefuzz@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 09:13:41 JST Madeline :antiverified:

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard @thraeryn

     What if you wanted to chat with friends, but matrix said, Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 18:12:07 JST GNU Too

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     @thraeryn I love the idea of XMPP/Jabber. But ever since Google & Facebook dropped support few people I know IRL use it. More over the protocol claims to support video calls, but I have never seen it actually work. That's why I have been using "new and shiny" Matrix.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 18:15:43 JST GNU Too

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     @thraeryn otherwise Signal for IRL people, Telegram for only the "Groups", & WhatsApp for Indians.