Signal's down.
We really need a federated/decentralized alternative to it. XMPP is alright. But doesn't do calls last I checked.
@imattau oh, how recent is that? I haven't used it for a few years.
@pete I’ve been using it for almost a year.. so before then 🤔
@pete XMPP is eXtensible, technically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)
But practically, it's pretty tough to support so many different implementations.
@pete checkout https://matrix.org/, straight forward to bring up, unless you want voip
@pete e.g. LibremChat (offered via https://librem.one/ ) is based on that protocol
@pete what about jami?
@pete
Application: Element/Riot.im
Protocol: Matrix
Server SW: Synapse
Basically it is the old Google Talk protocol. A few apps supporting Jingle are available:
xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.h…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%…
@pete being open source, shouldn't be too difficult to federate
@pete I didn't even notice it, using Signal daily.
@BradReed Interesting. I noticed in testing that my main signal account could send messages reliably while a test account I don't use much could not. Possibly they were prioritising regular users.
@pete #XMPP does voice and video calling… 👍
#Jitsi is also based on XMPP