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No shit. For years they have spent more time making custom clients for NATO than fixing the basics. #XMPP
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/ https://soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-signal-competitor/ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/ #XMPP
Gonna second the soatok hate. This guys just been signals #1 fanboy for the last several years and it really gets on my nerves.
lol not reading soatok again, people post his slop every single discussion of messengers. thanks, but I don't think "this is too difficult for furries to use at cons" is a useful metric for judging communications protocols.
pretty deft though, I mean, implying ease of access issues happen more often to furries. I'm sure that is the case! #XMPP #furry
It's possible that you'd be more interested in https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/
I avoid using Signal because I don't like that creating (and maintaining) an account requires interaction with the public switched telephone network. I generally don't see much discussion about the methods I prefer to use to communicate nowadays.