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RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/113549020656921249
#Signal isn’t just AWS. It also has a hard dependency on Google’s push notification system (FCM) if you don’t want your battery to catch fire.
Signal’s attitude towards #UnifiedPush and #FDroid speaks volumes.
@daniel but it's a big step for most of the people!
However the problem is that most people don't even think about switching from WA to Signal - and NEVER heard about conversations #XMPP
#Schools could / MUST do more! Instead they are pushing students into digital dependencies. School leaders avoid the hassle to think, they appreciate conformity.
🇫🇷 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FÉDIVERSE
Un service développé spécialement pour vous, le bridge XMPP/AP permet de dialoguer entre les applications du fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP. Intuitif et facile d'utilisation, à partir de votre application et de votre compte habituel, il vous suffit de contacter @xmpp_bridge (depuis le fédiverse) ou xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (depuis XMPP).
Si vous administrez un serveur, vous pourrez également l'installer vous-même, le code est disponible en source ouverte.
Toute la documentation pour l'utilisation, l'administration ou l'installation est ici: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
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🇬🇧 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FEDIVERSE
A service developed especially for you, the XMPP/AP Bridge allows you to communicate between #Fediverse applications and #XMPP instant messaging. Intuitive and easy to use, from your usual application and account, simply contact @xmpp_bridge (from the Fediverse) or xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (from XMPP).
If you administer a server, you can also install it yourself; the code is provided as open source.
All documentation for use, administration, or installation is available here: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
🇫🇷 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FÉDIVERSE
Un service développé spécialement pour vous, le bridge XMPP/AP permet de dialoguer entre les applications du fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP. Intuitif et facile d'utilisation, à partir de votre application et de votre compte habituel, il vous suffit de contacter @xmpp_bridge (depuis le fédiverse) ou xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (depuis XMPP).
Si vous administrez un serveur, vous pourrez également l'installer vous-même, le code est disponible en source ouverte.
Toute la documentation pour l'utilisation, l'administration ou l'installation est ici: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
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🇬🇧 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FEDIVERSE
A service developed especially for you, the XMPP/AP Bridge allows you to communicate between #Fediverse applications and #XMPP instant messaging. Intuitive and easy to use, from your usual application and account, simply contact @xmpp_bridge (from the Fediverse) or xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (from XMPP).
If you administer a server, you can also install it yourself; the code is provided as open source.
All documentation for use, administration, or installation is available here: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
Not at all .. it's not surviving by any standards.
On the contrary, #XMPP is not just a standard #IETF protocol, it is a thriving ecosystem composed by a multitude of clients, servers, libraries and tools being actively developed in just about any programming language, with some of the most prominent developments spread over Germany, France, UK and the USA among others, solid and well established communities in the Nederlands, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Russia ( and particularly in Germany, France, UK and the USA .. but that kinda goes without saying ..) just to name a few, and servers running from almost all across the world.
If you'd like to know more about it, don't hesitate to ask!
Is it just me, or does #XMPP survive mostly as a French thing? Suits me fine. Just curious.
@chewie @zeank See, my second toot here is about XMPP server, not about TURN server ;-)
> what would be the incentive to hack an xmpp account? To send SPAM? That’s usually done by creating accounts on servers having open registration
In my country the hacked XMPP account could be used to sell illegal drugs — I heard that drug addicts and dealers sometimes are using Jabber to communicate.
Or, in a more common way — hacked XMPP account could be used to frame the person as a criminal or terrorist — by some foreign hackers or even by police or security services, if they want an "easy case".
It is not a big deal for some corrupted official — upload something like child pornography or texts with government criticism using hacked account on the server, then raid the person's home to sieze the server and "prove" the person's guilty this way. You can earn an easily closed case and good department statistics this way.
Maybe you heard about similar case with mathematician Dmitry Bogatov? Unknown bad guy posted calls for mass unrest in some forums using his Tor exit-node and the state tried to put the Dmitry in jail for terrorism and mass riots preparation.
So, I'm very surprised that I don't see attempts to break in my Prosody installation in the logs.
@daniel #Signal is bridge technology. Today, you cannot tell non-techie people to choose from a #XMPP provider on their own, because they would have struggle to do so.
I suggest we continue delivering basic IT knowledge to those who are interested and ask things. All the others are doomed in any case.
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@restless/115912656588056648
Wenn wir das mit der digitalen Unabhängigkeit ernst meinen ist #Signal einfach nur eine Ablenkung.
#Quicksy hingegen ist ein wirklicher Schritt in die richtige Richtung. Quicksy ist so konzipiert, dass man darüber hinaus wächst und ein nahtloser Übergang zu #Conversations_im möglich ist.
Quicksy ist die Einstiegsdroge für wirklich unabhängiges Instant Messaging mit #XMPP.
Few days ago I successfully configured #coturn to have a TURN/STUN server for in-family calls. But … looks like bots or some bad guys constantly trying to connect to my TURN server to use it for something 😒
Of course, it is impossible, since anonymous access or any other access without right key is impossible. But, there are no IPs of attackers in the log file, even wth "Verbose" directive — only my local and public IPs and my server's hostname 
Maybe, there is some way to force coturn to display IP addresses of connected clients, so I could ban them all with fail2ban?
Pretty funny that bots are trying to break into my Nginx and TURN services, but absolutely ignore my Prosody service (I have a Jabber server with closed registration for in-family communication).
All unauthorized logins, logins with wrong passwords and attempts to register are logged. But, near half an year I see literally zero attempts to do something like that from bots 
Maybe, they are trying to do something on the low level, which doesn't appear on the logs without "debug" level? 
Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich bereits ein erstes Rezept veröffentlicht (siehe: https://social.anoxinon.de/@eversten/115877298328556708 ).
Es war mir allerdings wichtig, dass die Leserinnen und Leser eine App nach ihrem persönlichen Bedarf empfohlen bekommen. Daher habe ich diesen neuen Ansatz gewählt.
RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@eversten/115910800835732180
Der #DiDay und die Messenger - Eine einfache Lösung?
Schön wäre ja, wenn mehr Menschen zu offenen, föderierten Messengern wie Matrix oder XMPP wechseln würden.
Die grösste Hürde bleibt oft: Menschen finden.
Ich habe nun Quicksy ausprobiert.
Ein XMPP-Client mit Registrierung per Handynummer. Der Server prüft, welche Kontakte bereits dort sind - ähnlich wie bei #WhatsApp & Co.
Das Schöne: Hat man die Menschen einmal gefunden, kann man problemlos den Server wechseln, weil man ja deren Handles kennt.
Gegen eine einmalige Gebühr kann ich meine Nummer im Quicksy-Verzeichnis mit einem Handle auf einem anderen XMPP-Server verknüpfen.
So können Quicksy-User mich per Nummer finden, auch wenn ich selbst nicht dort bin.
Vielen Dank für das Rezept, Axel!
Inspiriert vom #did bzw. #dut habe ich mich mit einigem Feedback aus der #XMPP Community daran gesetzt, ein Rezept für den Einstieg in standardisiertes Messaging mit XMPP zu schreiben.
Die Leserin/der Leser erhält dabei ein Rezept nachdem sie/er sich persönlich eingeschätzt hat.
Feedback gerne als Kommentar:
https://xmpp24.de/
Inspiriert vom #did bzw. #dut habe ich mich mit einigem Feedback aus der #XMPP Community daran gesetzt, ein Rezept für den Einstieg in standardisiertes Messaging mit XMPP zu schreiben.
Die Leserin/der Leser erhält dabei ein Rezept nachdem sie/er sich persönlich eingeschätzt hat.
Feedback gerne als Kommentar:
https://xmpp24.de/
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
On the complexities of protocol governance.
>There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation.
>With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually building open fediverse software.
>Mastodon gGmbH, Framasoft, and others are not W3C members and cannot participate in the Working Group unless they are invited.
#CHATONS #fediverse #fedivers #ActivityPub #w3c #Mastodon #Peertube #Lemmy #mBin #Piefed #NodeBB #Iceshrimp #Pixelfed #Loops
@snoopy i'm trying to understand what i'm reading there. i'm thinking:
1. take code that someone else worked on forever.
2. make a governing body.
3. leave out the ones who made it so we can take it over.
i'm guessing the next steps are
4. enshitify it.
5. integrate it into our apps.
6. make a lot of people use it.
7. dump it.
8. replace it with our ecosystem's closed source alternative.
9. profit.
tested and true
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.
