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#JohanaBhuiyan suggests to #autoDelete messages and I agree with her.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/20/how-to-opt-out-location-sharing-smartphones
While this is not a "hard" security measure and might lead to a false sense of security, it is an easy and effective method of #dataHygiene.
I wonder, if any #Jabber clients have this feature?
#Conversations by @daniel, #Dino by @dino, #Gajim by @gajim, #Monal by @Monal, #SiskinIM by @tigase, anyone?
Maybe the general encryption setting is not yet released by @dino? I'm running a git snapshot from #Debian experimental, 0.4.4+git20241115.79f792e-1, which already has it.
Anyway, I'm using #Dino on my mobile phone, which I use infrequently, but #Gajim by @gajim on my desktop. Maybe you like that #Jabber client better?
@Monal @sbb I think everyone is assuming I use a phone for messaging. I do not, and never will unless there is absolutely no other alternative. I use my desktop computer, which right now is running #Ubuntu Linux although I hope someday to switch (probably to PopOS with the Cosmic desktop when it is out of alpha/beta), but before that I used to run a 2014 Mac Mini with MacOS until Apple decided it was too old to run the latest version of their ever-increasingly enshittified operating system. So when I talk about #XMPP clients, I am specifically talking about clients that run on the Linux desktop or are cross-platform.
#Monal only seems to be for iOS and macOS and right now I am not running either of those, so can't try it. I remember trying it a few years ago in MacOS and I really did not like it then for reasons I can no longer recall, in fact I continued to use Adium which was a older than dirt program but yet it was the easiest to set up and configure (in part because it did not insist that the server have a valid certificate before it would even communicate with it). However it could only do text; trying to send images or files would always fail.
Now I am using #Gajim which is the only client I have found that ticks most of the boxes for desired functionality. It's not absolutely perfect but it's very usable once you get it configured correctly.
Also, I am not at this point real interested in using a public XMPP server because I only use XMPP for two reasons, to talk to and send files to other family members, and to get certain status messages from a couple of servers. None of that needs to be on a public server. And the main reason I stopped using IRC was because I didn't like it because nothing was permanent or searchable (which may be an advantage in some cases, but not if you are using it for software support or tech advice, where you could miss an answer to a question you asked if you log out or lose your network connection unexpectedly). But for one off casual use (where some software maker still thinks IRC is the bees knees), it is possible to connect to a web-based IRC client and ask your question, without even setting up a client, in fact on some servers you don't even need to log in.
I'm not saying no one should use XMPP rather than IRC, there are almost certainly use cases where XMPP is the best choice, but you will never convince me that it's easier to use. Not that I would want to use either one for group chats, but with LIRC I can simply go to a server site and go to their web client, select a user name, and join a particular chat using the chat name. With XMPP I would need to install software, figure out how to connect it to a server (and probably login) and then configure it, knowing full well I'd be lucky to find more than a handful of people in the same room. IRC was great before we had web-based forums, but not that many people want to sit around and wait for someone to show up that they may want to chat with (gamers MAY be an exception to that but I am not a gamer so can't speak to that).
Gajim is currently migrating from GTK3 to GTK4. 🔧 GTK is Gajim's user interface toolkit. It provides building blocks, like windows, buttons and labels. 🧩
Version 4 of this toolkit brings performance improvements to Gajim, e.g. faster rendering of user interface elements. 💨
Additionally, switching to GTK4 allows Gajim to use newer widgets, like nice drop downs.
Here is a quick peek at a new group chat "@ mention" widget. 😎
Stay tuned! 
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A message input with a popover showing a list of group chat participants which can be mentioned. The message input contains "@ca", which triggers a popover with group chat participants filtered by "ca".
v2 of the #XMPP client #MonoclesChat made it to #FDroid the other day, and it's a big update!
Let's start with the shiny new features -
1. Material You theme, joining upstream #Conversations
2. Proper UI for emoji reactions, joining #Gajim and Conversations
3. Type @ to complete usernames, with shortcuts for mentioning all mods and mentioning all active participants. Type : to insert emojis.
4. Per-chat custom backgrounds.
(1/4)
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Monocles Chat with Material You light theme, showing the new emoji reactions interface and the reaction selector interface.
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User search interface in Monocles Chat v2.0.1, with shortcuts to mention all moderators and to mention all active participants.
2) Man kann seinen Anbieter selber wählen. 3) Man kann seine eigenen Anwendung (Client) selber wählen.
Unabhängig der Wahl von Anbieter und Anwendung können die Kommunikationsteilnehmer miteinander kommunizieren. Unabhängig ob es ein privater oder geschäftlicher Account ist. Unabhängig welches Betriebssystem man verwenden.
Jetzt kommt die Frage: Gibt es dies auch für Messenger? Antwort: Ja! Wir besprechen hier vom Protokoll #XMPP definiert in Standard RFC 6120, RFC 6121,RFC 6122,... Also wie HTTP, TCP/IP und vieles was man aus dem WWW kennt ist es ein IETF Standard.
Man kann den Anbieter frei wählen. Man kann seinen Client wählen. Viele Clients verwenden als Verschlüsselung OMEMO. Eine Verschlüsselung mit t Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) wie man es von Signal kennt.
Client Anwendung gibt es z.b. #Monal für iOS. #Conversations für Android. #gajim für Linux oder Windows #Dino für Linux.
Funktioniert alles ohne Handynummer.
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