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Signal's down.

We really need a federated/decentralized alternative to it. XMPP is alright. But doesn't do calls last I checked.

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imattau

@pete #XMPP does voice and video calling… 👍

#Jitsi is also based on XMPP

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Peter Todd

@imattau oh, how recent is that? I haven't used it for a few years.

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imattau

@pete I’ve been using it for almost a year.. so before then 🤔

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kekcoin

@imattau @pete jitsi is awesome. Limitations are that it sucks for larger conference calls, and afaict it doesnt federate.

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Kaito

@pete XMPP is eXtensible, technically. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(

But practically, it's pretty tough to support so many different implementations.

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Râu Cao ⚡

@kai @pete Yup. Calls are still very experimental, but hopefully we'll get there eventually. Moxie will never ever federate Signal, based on what he stated in the past.

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Peter Todd

@raucao @kai Moxie is indistinguishable from a fed.

(granted, so is Santa)

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~robby

@pete XEP-0166 (aka the Jingle extension) enables voice and video calling functionality.

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roshii

@pete checkout matrix.org/, straight forward to bring up, unless you want voip

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roshii

@pete e.g. LibremChat (offered via librem.one/ ) is based on that protocol

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lelloba

@pete what about jami?

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rimugú

@pete
Application: Element/Riot.im
Protocol: Matrix
Server SW: Synapse

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Więcesław Duczynski
@pete XMPP has XEPs for audio/video calls.
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Ermanno
@wiecek @pete
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_%…
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zsəɹʇou

@pete being open source, shouldn't be too difficult to federate

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Brad Reed

@pete I didn't even notice it, using Signal daily.

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Peter Todd

@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.

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