@Mer__edith @datum

Somebody please #timewarp me to 1999-01-06 and invent an #IETF #standard #protocol for federated #instantMessaging 🙂

Btw. my local internet club, founded in 1995, does host both #Jabber and Matrix now. No #hyperscaler involved. No #selfHosting needed.

#RFC6120 #community

Hello people of the Fediverse. I have a minor problem I'd like to pick your brains for any solution, regarding #xmpp / #jabber calls over AT&T wireless mobile, in the US.

Simply, xmpp calls over #att data fail, audio or video doesn't matter, texts get through just fine. Calls over WiFi are fine. I have tried the aTalk and the c0nnect pro apps, same result. Using chatterboxtown.us as a server, in case that matters. All devices are Android.

Looking for clues, knowledge or experience. TIA

There's a reason I've been recommending folks reliant on #Signal to familiarise themselves with #jabber (or #xmpp if you like).

Signal relies on one of the companies they aim to protect us from: amazon. If amazon goes down, so to does Signal.

Is that bad? Yes. Yes it is. It is very bad. You just had the faintest hint of a whiff of what that means today.

Jabber, on the other hand, is a #SelfHostable decentralised service that has been in continuous use and development since the 90s.

With my jabber server ( #Prosody) and my #android client ( #Conversations), my friends and family and I do everything we can do on Signal - text, quote reply, search, send media and files, voice and video chat... and it's all #e2ee end-to-end-encrypted, running on hardware and software we have total control over.

Go explore the world of options with Jabber!

There's a reason I've been recommending folks reliant on #Signal to familiarise themselves with #jabber (or #xmpp if you like).

Signal relies on one of the companies they aim to protect us from: amazon. If amazon goes down, so to does Signal.

Is that bad? Yes. Yes it is. It is very bad. You just had the faintest hint of a whiff of what that means today.

Jabber, on the other hand, is a #SelfHostable decentralised service that has been in continuous use and development since the 90s.

With my jabber server ( #Prosody) and my #android client ( #Conversations), my friends and family and I do everything we can do on Signal - text, quote reply, search, send media and files, voice and video chat... and it's all #e2ee end-to-end-encrypted, running on hardware and software we have total control over.

Go explore the world of options with Jabber!

Not everyone can or should self-host, but there is a lot of middle ground between self-hosting and putting everything on #AWS.

Federated protocols like #XMPP, #ActivityPub, and #SMTP give you choice.

#Fediverse #Jabber

Many exciting projects made it into the latest @NGIZero funding round.

My personal favorites are OMEMO v2 ( #TWOMEMO 😜) for Converse.js (by @jcbrand) and GTK4 support for @phosh.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

#XMPP #Jabber #Converse #OMEMO

Many exciting projects made it into the latest @NGIZero funding round.

My personal favorites are OMEMO v2 ( #TWOMEMO 😜) for Converse.js (by @jcbrand) and GTK4 support for @phosh.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

#XMPP #Jabber #Converse #OMEMO

The XMPP Newsletter for September 2025 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/10/the-xmpp-newsletter-september-2025/

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

The XMPP Newsletter for September 2025 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/10/the-xmpp-newsletter-september-2025/

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

Testing GNU Taler at #Datenspuren was fun. And by fun I mean mostly unspectacular. It just worked. I scanned a QR code. I got some Kolle Mate.

I think some sort of GNU Taler integration into #Conversations_im would be pretty cool.

If you would like to integrate Taler into Conversations there are currently funding opportunities available¹ from @nlnet and both the Taler developer as well as myself are happy to help with scoping.

¹: https://nlnet.nl/taler/

#XMPP #Jabber #GnuTaler #Taler #NGI

Testing GNU Taler at #Datenspuren was fun. And by fun I mean mostly unspectacular. It just worked. I scanned a QR code. I got some Kolle Mate.

I think some sort of GNU Taler integration into #Conversations_im would be pretty cool.

If you would like to integrate Taler into Conversations there are currently funding opportunities available¹ from @nlnet and both the Taler developer as well as myself are happy to help with scoping.

¹: https://nlnet.nl/taler/

#XMPP #Jabber #GnuTaler #Taler #NGI

@harold

Signal is trustworthy, IMHO, but it has fundamental drawbacks for me:

1. It depends on AWS and Google #bigTech infrastructure. As #EU citizen, I prefer EU based services or even #selfHosting.

2. Even their desktop client requires to have Google Android or Apple iOS, which I don't have nor want.

3. They ask for a phone number to register. I don't like that.

Fortunately, all that has been solved 1999 with the introduction of #Jabber, the #fediverse of chat 🙂

#digitalSovereignty #XMPP

@harold

Signal is trustworthy, IMHO, but it has fundamental drawbacks for me:

1. It depends on AWS and Google #bigTech infrastructure. As #EU citizen, I prefer EU based services or even #selfHosting.

2. Even their desktop client requires to have Google Android or Apple iOS, which I don't have nor want.

3. They ask for a phone number to register. I don't like that.

Fortunately, all that has been solved 1999 with the introduction of #Jabber, the #fediverse of chat 🙂

#digitalSovereignty #XMPP

No idea where the idea comes from, that #Jabber would have less problems with #spam than other federated communication systems 🤷

There are some tools in place, e.g. #RTBL and #messageModeration, which are great. But that's not sufficient.

We need new gate keeping schemes for large group chats. Open group chats are prone to spam, closing them puts too much acceptance work load on #MUC admins. I'm not yet sure, how a "semi-open" solution could look like.

#XMPP

I imagine #TALER payments from within a #Jabber/#XMPP chat app… No, I'll not apply for it 🙂

I imagine #TALER payments from within a #Jabber/#XMPP chat app… No, I'll not apply for it 🙂

XMPP is pronounced 'ʤæb.əʳ 🙂

To me,
#XMPP is the universal communication protocol, used for #IoT, #WebRTC, gaming, social, and #instantMessaging.
#Jabber is the latter in an open and federated network.
#CiscoJabber™ is a product by Cisco.
Zimpy is many things, but don't look it up in #UrbanDictionary!

(Btw. I fiercely advocate naming #freeSoftware projects, children, cats, companies, everything, after #UUIDs. No more unambiguousness, no more #trademark issues.)

¿Cansada/o/e de chats que te espían, te venden y encima no te dejan decir “mierda”?
Pues ya puedes mudarte a nuestro servidor XMPP

https://tuiterchat.tuiter.ovh/

Funciona con apps chulas (Snikket, Dino, Gajim...)
No tiene anuncios. No tiene stickers horribles. No tiene Elon.

Solo texto, emojis y gente rara.
Como en los buenos tiempos.

#XMPP#Jabber#Fediverso#ChatLibre#DramaAutogestionado

¿Cansada/o/e de chats que te espían, te venden y encima no te dejan decir “mierda”?
Pues ya puedes mudarte a nuestro servidor XMPP

https://tuiterchat.tuiter.ovh/

Funciona con apps chulas (Snikket, Dino, Gajim...)
No tiene anuncios. No tiene stickers horribles. No tiene Elon.

Solo texto, emojis y gente rara.
Como en los buenos tiempos.

#XMPP#Jabber#Fediverso#ChatLibre#DramaAutogestionado