Yeah. Let say Signal goes down because of Big Tech and lets say that 50% of their users use Signal as their only messaging app. What will happen then? Hysteria!

No, XMPP all the way for me until Signal becomes decentralized with zero external connections and when they also have removed the phone number requirement.

I totally agree with you. But!

But Signal from what I’ve heard really wants us to use their server.

Signal doesn’t have their own servers. Instead, they rent servers from 4 companies, 3 of them is Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. So Signal is relying on Big Tech and if Big Tech decides that enough is enough, they can easily shut Signal down.

THAT is what I find most terrifying. And why not use their own server? Not enough money, but they are working on it (good).

And to make it a little bit worst: Signal depends on a third party company for sending out SMS. Your phone number is therefore handled by not Signal, but by yet another company, highly likey an American company. And they are against privacy invading companies at the same time they are one. Oh, the irony.

You want sources? Sure.

• https://signal.org/legal/ (below “Information we may share”)
• https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of Signal. But there is flaws that makes Signal more privacy invading than privacy friendly.

Thank you! Finally someone that also sees Signal as privacy invasing!

Ok. Same here, as of now (small group of people). I haven’t noticed any spam even if I have my XMPP address public. In pure text that is, but still.

If that is true, I haven’t noticed anything yet.

No bots in XMPP, please.

Just wanted to thank you for the idea of having an wiki for every relative on my own genealogy website. Thank you! :) Added that feature right after I read your posts maybe 13 days ago.

Privacy, no bloat (depending on distro), no Big Tech, freedom, no cost.

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Very, very nice! Pragtical might be my new text editor :) Many thanks!

However, I do miss the minimap… that I have now added (this is my second edit of this post).

Up vote for Lite XL 👍

I find the quality very good. And there’s no problems with setup a “server” :)

1. Go to the preferred Jitsi Meet server.
2. Enter the meeting name (as it really called) or just press enter to get a random name.
3. Enter your details and options (mainly mic on/off and webcam on/off).
4. Enter the meeting. If you’re the first one in it, you’re the moderator.

Once inside and as a moderator, you can create so called breakout rooms. These works just like subchannels in Discord. If you’re many people in 1 call, you can create these to create a more calmer experience. I have personally not tried these out since I have only talked to 1-2 people.

Mumble is a excellent VoIP software, but like you said, screen sharing is not possible since Mumble is just what VoIP means: voice over IP.

I have the same issue, but got 2 Discord users to try Jitsi Meet with me (a friend of mine on my Snikket server invited her friend). After a while, her friend asked me why it looked so much alike Discord and my friend agreed. I gave them a big smile and said, “because this is awesome”.

Jitsi Meet + Snikket has been my saves since I deleted my Discord account during the pandemic.

You think that Proton and Brave is on the same level of privacy as Google, Apple, and Microsoft?

Still better than Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chome.

They missed to mention Jitsi Meet, posteo.de, Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP (for an example Snikket). But other than that, really good list! 😃

And yes, you can use others servers for Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP/Snikket. No need for self-hosting your own.

From my own experience, it all depends on what software you use to view the picture. For an example, Windows 10’s own image viewer, Photos, can view the pictures as pixelated (at least it used to few years ago, might depend of GPU and whatnot), while other image viewers like qimgv lets you zoom in as close as specific words without pixelating the image.

The images below shows just this. The first image shows the image with no zoom, as how qimgv let you see the image when you open the file. The second image shows the image 100% zoomed in, and the third image shows a extreme close-up on 1 word in qimgv.

The photo was taken with the Open Camera app with a Google Pixel 6a (camera resolution set to the highest setting: 4032x3024 (12,19 MP)).

The screenshot below shows the same image, but as much zoomed in I could possible zoom in, in Fossify Gallery.

I live under a rock most of the time, so welcome to the club. What I know of, the leaks are screenshots from the devices. How a 1-on-1 chat on Signal got leaked other than by screenshots is beyond me, though. If there is a breach in Signal Protocol, there’s a breach in OMEMO, too, since OMEMO uses Signal Protocol.

Alright. Haha, I filter out Big Tech and far-right shit on Mastodon :P It’s probably because of that. And if some far-right person starts to chat/talk to me, I often ignore him/her. Luckily, that haven’t happen… yet.

And to comment your first comment further. JD Vance uses Signal, or at least used. There was a massive Signal leak with him involved few months ago.

I have no clue who or what “glowies” are :P Searched the web and found this: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie. Correct?