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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Not being libre & opensource as well as not being decentralised and federalized it's not really an option.
The best discord like experiences that are right now are:
A) https://element.io/ which uses the matrix protocol
B) https://gajim.org/ (Discord like UI not released yet) that uses the XMPP protocol
Mumble is open source tho?
Edit: nvm this isn't the Mumble
Yep
Genuinely clueless, is XMPP relevant anymore? I consider myself reasonably technical, and when it comes to chat, here's what comes to mind:
- IRC
- Slack / Zulip / Mattermost
- Discord
- Matrix / Element
If I was to use Gajim, who would I talk to? e.g any communities or projects
The only thing that makes matrix more relevant than XMPP is that matrix has the element client and that matrix has a lot of momentum. But XMPP is a pretty great protocol that just needs better clients, branding and community stuff.
Here is a video displaying the upcoming discord/slack-like UI for Gajim 1.4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZaZY2hYzA
But yeah, matrix/element is the most relevant thing right now.
(IRC is completely dead as a viable option for most people I think, only hardcore people use it)