@strypey Fedi developers will need to go to events like this and talk to people outside usual circles. For now I'm focusing on #XMPP as I think replacing #WhatsApp is more important right now.
@praveen > For now I'm focusing on XMPP as I think replacing WhatsApp is more important right now
Fair. 2 questions;
1) Are you familiar with the @snikket_im project to build a modern, easy-to-use chat experience using existing XMPP software? (Full disclose: I've done little bits of paid contracting for it)
2) Why XMPP, and not Matrix, Delta.Chat (E2EE chat over email protocols), or Sup messenger (E2EE chat over ActivityPub)? Just curious.
@strypey@snikket_im Delta Chat is relatively new and I don't use it. Basically I'm already familiar with #XMPP, then #Quicksy already provides the onboarding and contact discovery familiar to most people through WhatsApp (SMS OTP sign up and contact discovery via phone book).
Unlike most other software, choice of messaging app is not just personal (the social cost of not using WhatsApp is too high and not easy for most people). So we need a different strategy and well coordinated campaign.
I'd like to use only #xmpp but my family and friends use meta services, work parners use slack and telegram, most of the open source comunities uses #matrix, and I need to use all of those services :blobcatgoogly2:
Help us fund our custom username feature which will help people sign up on Prav using a custom username. Right now, your phone number is your username.
We need to raise 23000 INR (300 USD) to implement this feature. Thanks to Softrate India for taking this.
Did you ever know that if you have a @SDF shell account you already have a #XMPP account with your user name as a handle and all you need to do is set up a password?
In #SDF#Jabber server are created from the shell with the 'maint' utility.
1. Log in to the password server by running the maint program. 2. Type o to select optional features and social networking 3. Type j to set your Jabber password. 4. Quit from maint utility and wait one minute.
Prav - A Free Software Challenger To WhatsApp By me and @badrihippo October 13, 2024
Do you care about Free Software but still end up using WhatsApp for your messaging needs? It is ironic that a large part of the Free Software community in India is still using a proprietary software — #WhatsApp — for their everyday communications.
wiuwiu.de XMPP seems to quit its service at the end of the month. Obviously there has not been an official, public announcement, yet, but their users have been informed via XMPP messages.
If you're looking for another XMPP service, trashserver.net is happy to serve you.
For registration, send an email to: xmpp@trashserver.net and I'll create an account for you.
@renchap Mastodon gGmbH is listed as a partner of the #SocialWebFoundation! The mission of SWF does not match, if not contradicts the purpose and object of the gGmbH. In my point of view this is the beginning of "embrace, extend and extinguish" of #activitypub like we saw with #xmpp