Y'know how nice it is to message someone through my XMPP server, never once worrying that our messages will be intercepted? Knowing that they'll go "poof" in a couple of days anyway? That my little server is beneath most notice in the first place?
I never get a message from my dentist, or the city, or some shitstain who bought a thousand-pack of target numbers and a hundred-pack of SIM cards. It's me and my friends. And, like ActivityPub, it's federated; they don't have to be on my server.
XMPP isn't new and shiny. It's mature. It's robust. Those qualities, in most cases, should trump "new and shiny".
It looks and acts like texting.
I do not get why people keep looking for The New Secure Communication Method, especially ones brought to you by Capitalists.
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alcinnz
in reply to The Embodiment of RED • • •I'm enjoying XMPP! It's working very well for me!
In fact couple weeks back I conversed with someone in my mentions saying "if only it had this, or that" & these supposedly-missing features kept being things I've actually used effortlessly!
silverwizard
Unknown parent • •Daniel Lowe
Unknown parent • • •@Azure @alcinnz It's identity fatigue. People can't make themselves sign up for yet another service to keep contact with people, and they can't abandon the commercial ones because most of their non-weirdo friends and family are on them. So you're asking them to do something additional for you instead of you doing the normative thing for them.
This is from my years of effort trying to pry friends and family off of Facebook with better alternatives.
alcinnz
in reply to Daniel Lowe • • •Yeah, but the frustrating is that the techies rely on utter falsehoods as an excuse not to switch.
At least the non-techies tend to be more honest about this...
Spencer
in reply to The Embodiment of RED • • •Hypolite Petovan
in reply to The Embodiment of RED • • •@The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: I understand non-encrypted XMPP covers your own threat model, but it cannot fly for more prominent targets like journalists and political activists. I’ve heard mixed feedback about OMEMO so XMPP isn’t the end-all-be-all of secure communications.
Not that Signal is either, but at least encryption works out of the box and pretty reliably.