Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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I have been using it with some friends who refuse to use XMPP. Seems to work reasonably well and there is a third party client that seems to be tolerated on the network: OpenMittsu. OpenMittsu works, but isn't great to be honest.
Recently they open-sourced their client code (android and web, not sure about iOS), but uptake by 3rd party developers has been limited.
Bridging is also complicated by the fact that their API is for pay only, although a puppeteering gateway based on the OpenMittsu code would probably work.
Server side it is close-source and servers seem to be hosted in Germany I guess? Not 100% sure on the latter part.
Edit: The reasons I insisted on Threema over Signal (only two choices they left me with cry) was that Threema does not require a phone number to work (but one can be optionally linked to an account).
hosted in Germany.
Almost. It's actually Switzerland.
Matrix would have been far superior, as would have been XMPP.