Do you know why they mention Signal (the app), but nobody mentions a single XMPP app? Because there’s not a single good app for it lol.
You expect people to use XMPP how exactly? Is Conversations, that Android kitkat looking $4 app on Google Play the Signal killer app you expect it to be? People pick apps/software, not protocols. Otherwise what do you expect them to do.
Dino is a much better desktop client than Signal’s imo. Especially because Signal only distributes their desktop app as debs and flatpaks. Mobile apps aren’t as good looking, but Conversations is more performant. iOS clients are the only missing link to make that last point moot, and I think Monal is getting there.
scli exists, but Signal’s support for third party clients is pretty dogshit. The frontend uses signal-cli commands in the background, and worked well when I used it a few months ago. It doesnt have every single feature the electron one does, but it did everything I needed it to.
@mojo@SummerBreeze Conversations is gratis on F-Droid. Standards compliance and interoperability is a lot more important than slightly more rounded message boxes in a walled-garden app, that doesn’t give you the freedom to run our own server or choose your own providers.
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Do you know why they mention Signal (the app), but nobody mentions a single XMPP app? Because there’s not a single good app for it lol.
You expect people to use XMPP how exactly? Is Conversations, that Android kitkat looking $4 app on Google Play the Signal killer app you expect it to be? People pick apps/software, not protocols. Otherwise what do you expect them to do.
Dino is a much better desktop client than Signal’s imo. Especially because Signal only distributes their desktop app as debs and flatpaks. Mobile apps aren’t as good looking, but Conversations is more performant. iOS clients are the only missing link to make that last point moot, and I think Monal is getting there.
Isn’t the only available desktop Signal client Electron bloatware as well?
scli exists, but Signal’s support for third party clients is pretty dogshit. The frontend uses signal-cli commands in the background, and worked well when I used it a few months ago. It doesnt have every single feature the electron one does, but it did everything I needed it to.
@mojo @SummerBreeze Conversations is gratis on F-Droid. Standards compliance and interoperability is a lot more important than slightly more rounded message boxes in a walled-garden app, that doesn’t give you the freedom to run our own server or choose your own providers.
More important to whom? Not to the people I message, that’s for sure.
Conversations is a terribly ugly and prehistoric app, there’s no way around it.
They will be presenting a new app around November. Will look much more modern.