@neil @snikket_im thanks for writing about it!

unsolicited suggestion: if you could add links to the software you use that'd be nice. (Especially when browsing on mobile)

I tried finding the link to snikket and I couldn't. (I woke up not long ago so that's my excuse if you did) :)

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I recently shut down my Snikket server because I couldn’t get enough friends and family to use it as an alternative to the mainstream stuff.

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@neil @snikket_im The depressing part is that we had XMPP as a federated standard decades ago and we could all be living this life. Imagine if even 10% of the security research and investment that’s gone into private platforms had gone into making XMPP better?

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Thats great! Could you, please tell the brands of the Android devices you use? I have bad experience on Xiaomi, Huawei. Sometimes Samsung and Motorola. All exceptions are done, so the App could stay alive. But often when the phone roams through wifi/gsm networks, it takes hours to reconnect.

@neil @snikket_im I was surprised at the state of #XMPP on my friends' #iOS devices. #siskin seemed like the best client, even though self-registration is broken. I've not played with voice or video chat, but it's very nice to have chat available again on my laptop after having my world contract to just Signal chats, which I never look at because my relationship with my phone just isn't like that. I'm certainly not installing any kind of #signal app on my laptop.

@neil so I’d like a cat so I can track them with an AirTag, and partner to test comms software with (dogs aren’t great at phones). Or have I got my priorities wrong a little 😂😈😇

@neil @snikket_im thanks. It may have been Firefox for Android linking me to the wrong place. I have the impression I clicked on that expecting to land on https://snikket.org/ and was confused.

Tempting to try this 😊 apologies for the confusion.

@neil Please would you send a few links my way? I too love XMPP and any security issues with it seem worth me knowing about, even if they're not deal-breakers.