Signal is making a part of their server source code proprietary software:
"To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private".
Taking into account it's centralized nature and that they don't allow third party clients, Signal seems to be just as bad as other "privacy" oriented companies.
Leave Signal and join a truly private, decentralized and libre protocol like #XMPP
Video calls in Dino are slowly coming together. We are already making successful OMEMO encrypted video calls! The feature is included in our nightly builds now, but there's still further work to be done. #dino#xmpp
Familiar with :apple_inc: Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? :xmpp: 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁
This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.
Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂
1) there is a growing network of people working on a #public federated chat network based on XMPP. There has been a lot of activity in the space in recent years. This activity is partly due to the development sprints, many of which last year have been organized by @pep
2) a bunch of new (and existing) clients continue working on usability (cross platform, consistent UIs, support for mobile, end-to-end encryption). Particularly web clients such as ConverseJS by @jcbrand are promising.
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." - Paul Valery
I was reminded of this quote as I cut the 5.0.0 release of Converse.js #XMPP client last night.
This is a huge (yuuuge) release, but there is still much more that could be done and bugs that aren't yet fixed. Alas, I ran out of time.
A big new feature is support for XEP-0198 stream management with websocket. I'm now only using BOSH as a fallback, otherwise it's not really necessary.
We got a tiny step closer to fully end-to-end encrypted message content in #XMPP. Version 0.0.1 of XEP-420: Stanza Content Encryption (#SCE) just got published. Still it is a long way till we're there.
@kim me apunté esto en marcadores porque yo tampoco te veía a ti si no te repetían y a más cuentas del #Fediverso.
Me pasa de vez en cuando y se arregla con este pequeño script que me pasó @xrevan86
cd plugins/OStatus/scripts/ && mysql -u myuser -p mydb -ss -e "SELECT uri FROM feedsub UNION SELECT feeduri AS uri FROM ostatus_profile WHERE profile_id IN (SELECT DISTINCT subscribed FROM subscription) ORDER BY uri;" | while read -r uri; do php resub-feed.php "$uri"; php testfeed.php "$uri"; done