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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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Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄
Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄  
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I’m ready to defenestrate matrix.
Adrian Cochrane
Adrian Cochrane  
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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!
Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄
Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄  
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@silverwizard
What if you wanted to chat with friends, but matrix said, Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message.
@silverwizard
Daniel Lowe
Daniel Lowe  
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@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.
@Adrian Cochrane @ライトスピル－大狐リス
Adrian Cochrane
Adrian Cochrane  
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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...
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Spencer
Spencer  
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The home server OS I use, YunoHost, has built-in XMPP; I should go back and look at my setup to see if it's still functioning.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@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.
@The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:
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