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Y'know how nice it is to message someone through my XMPP server, never once worrying that our messages will be intercepted? Knowing that they'll go "poof" in a couple of days anyway? That my little server is beneath most notice in the first place?

I never get a message from my dentist, or the city, or some shitstain who bought a thousand-pack of target numbers and a hundred-pack of SIM cards. It's me and my friends. And, like ActivityPub, it's federated; they don't have to be on my server.

XMPP isn't new and shiny. It's mature. It's robust. Those qualities, in most cases, should trump "new and shiny".

It looks and acts like texting.

I do not get why people keep looking for The New Secure Communication Method, especially ones brought to you by Capitalists.
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The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:
I really wish folks would hold the motherfuck off trying to reinvent the "secure communications" wheel until it actually NEEDS a rework.
Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄
I’m ready to defenestrate matrix.
Spencer
The home server OS I use, YunoHost, has built-in XMPP; I should go back and look at my setup to see if it's still functioning.
Hypolite Petovan
@The Embodiment of RED :fire_t: I understand non-encrypted XMPP covers your own threat model, but it cannot fly for more prominent targets like journalists and political activists. I’ve heard mixed feedback about OMEMO so XMPP isn’t the end-all-be-all of secure communications.

Not that Signal is either, but at least encryption works out of the box and pretty reliably.
@The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:

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