Hello Mastodon Family! Lena here from marketing. I'm writing an article on instant messengers with interoperability and I'm looking for some more information on what actually makes a messenger interoperable. I thought of focusing on: Element, Delta, and SimpleX but I'm open to other suggestions! Could anyone kindly advise? ☺️
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@Tutanota DekuSMS for SMS encrypted
@Tutanota like tox chat
@Tutanota XMPP. Open, standard, federated protocol from 1999. We need interoperability now more than ever. Maybe @threemaapp too, but it's centralized.
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I keep hearing about #SimpleX but background checks on who is behind it go back to some random Russian guy based in London. Not the best recommendation for either company director or country of registration.
There's claims that it's been audited but only by one company "Trail of Bits".
Then there's SimpleX disclaimer which specifically states that it may be neither secure or safe.
Doesn't instil confidence.
keychat.io has encryption similar to signal but they purport to change keys per message instead of per thread in an attempt to make it even harder to reconstitute the thread should anyone attempt to recover it.
Also, Keet is freaking awesome so far.
@Tutanota My go-to is Beeper, both on Android and Linux.
@Tutanota keep in mind element is a terribile client for matrix. Better for mobile are fluffychat, element X. For desktop nheko or cinny.
@Tutanota As it has not been mentioned I shall bring up veilid, it is not really finished but it is usable. https://veilid.com/
@Tutanota Hello, I see you already had a lots of nice answer.
Here is my point of view: interoperability could be see at the low protocol level or a highter level, lets say at the 'service or company' level.
When today the EU talk about interoperability it's on the company level. Of course it's better if the protocol is the same or at least interoperable. But the real challenge here is to agree to collaborate.
You god a lot of response talking about protocols: matrix, xmpp or email. In my point of view that the easiest part of the interoperability, even if it already not simple.
And I was not aware that SimpleX is interoperable in any way!
I'm working on a project of service that use mainly xmpp to let us talk between xmpp, matrix and sip users ( https://mio.chat/en/ 😉 )
@lascapi Nice, thanks for taking the time to share this.
@Tutanota #DeltaChat is truly one of the most secure with its decentralized servers.
@Tutanota SimpleX is not clean in terms of its relations with the far right.
