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Daniel Gultsch | 9 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +6 
 To celebrate Conversations being back on the Play Store and to deny Google their 15% cut I made the app free for the next ~48 hours. 😜

If you are new here: Check out #XMPP. It's federated, provider and vendor independent instant messaging. It’s great!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

Or get it from #fdroid - That version even has address book integration and public channel discovery!  😂
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Pablo Xannybar | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I used to run an XMPP server, had fun with it, but sadly hardly anyone else I knew used it.

If it was more widely used I'd definitely jump on it again. Conversations in particular has OMEMO E2EE on by default too. It's based on the Signal Protocol iirc. 

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nobody | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yep. I like Matrix but nobody wants to use it (none of the normies anyways) so im stuck with Telegram for the normiest and Threema for the few who care.
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Pablo Xannybar | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Telegram is at least half-decent even if it's cloud based. I tend to use Signal for peeps I know (and can convince) or Session for people who care but I wanna stay anon with.
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nobody | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I found session to be pretty good overall. 🫂
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Pablo Xannybar | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Very easy to onboard people to it as well. Just install and generate an ID. Boom. Done. It's become surprisingly popular in multiple circles of less techie people who want some anonymity for this reason.
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nobody | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I seemed to have less issues maintaining connections and getting notifications than on SimpleX as well. I’m low key retesting SimpleX on iOS right now though. Last time I used it, it was basically broken.