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@Melpomene @SummerBreeze I also don’t care about the conspiracy theories, but using a single-vendor solution with no interoperability like Signal is just stupid, sorry.

@Melpomene @SummerBreeze

It supports video calling and E2EE is enabled by default.

Maybe you will realize the need for vendor independent standards when Signal one day stops existing or fucks up and it becomes untrustworthy in your eyes. Walled gardens like Signal are can never be a good option. Why did you come to the Fediverse instead of using Reddit?

@Melpomene @SummerBreeze There is an XMPP app which provides this sign up experience too: https://quicksy.im . The other apps aren’t really as complicated as you make them to be. Download app, choose a chat address, use partners address to chat. Also you can recommend your friends the app you are using yourself instead of just throwing them a list.
It pulled in a lot of people this way, people aren’t as stupid as you think. XMPP is exactly as difficult to use as email.

@Melpomene @SummerBreeze Yes, and to talk to you I also would have to sign up with that particular provider since it is not interoperable with any other IM providers. This takes away the freedom to choose a provider, from anyone who wants to talk to you (in a secure way). That’s why I made internet standard (XMPP) compliance is a hard requirement for any IM provider I use.

Btw I don’t agree with the points in this video. But I think it’s best if people delete apps like Signal for above reasons.

@Secret300 @SummerBreeze XMPP is the current IETF internet standard for instant messaging. Matrix is a startup with VC funding trying to achieve the same goals as the XMPP protocol, but it’s not an internet standard and the underlying ideas of the protocol blow up pretty badly: https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

It also makes Matrix a very heavy protocol, typically requiring 1-2 orders of magnitude more server resources than XMPP.

They have a lot of money for shiny Electron clients and marketing though.

@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.