Over the past few years I have gone through a bunch of different apps and protocols to find the best one for “securely” communicating with my family and friends.

I ended up with the amazing XMPP protocol and my family/friends frequently use its clients to contact me.

Monal for IOS and Cheogram/Conversations/Quicksy for Android. The android app I install depends on if I can get F-Droid on their phone or not.

It’s been great with OMEMO encryption and the clients/apps available for XMPP. But sometimes I have issues introducing people to it.

Jabber (friendly name for xmpp) sounds silly to say. The clients all have weird names. And after trying the Signal mobile app it feels more focused than what anyone in the XMPP community has whipped up.

But the capabilities of XMPP makes it better.

Signal Cons (immediete)

  • Centralized
  • Single app
  • Phone numbers

XMPP/Jabber Cons

  • Picking server
  • Apps are sort of less friendly

What really scares me about Signal is the centralization. Any nerd can easily host an XMPP server these days. But Signal from what I’ve heard really wants us to use their server.

If XMPP gets more attention I’m sure we can get people supporting projects and creating better apps.

I keep seeing people recommended Signal instead.

This is a bit of a tired ramble. What I wanna know is why anyone is preferring Signal over XMPP apps. I assume it might be not knowing about it. Tell me what you use to message people.

  • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    Since you’ve clearly not read or comprehended any of the subpoenas that I linked, nor the encryption analysis, nor read any of Signal’s blogposts, I see no point with responding any further. You are spreading FUD, and I question your motives.

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
      1·
      24 hours ago

      From the blog you provided. Next time. Read your sources

      In the absolute worst case, a totally malicious Signal Server can perform traffic analysis to correlate the IP address assigned to the messages arriving with the delivery token for a recipient.

      And

      Sealed Sender cannot totally hide the recipient (else the server wouldn’t know where to route the messages).

      Edit: removed the word “moron”. I’m not a native English speaker and I thought it meant something else. It seems its like “retard” which I wouldn’t use as an insult. I’ve used it so much…

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’m not the one that is not listening. I don’t care about the ones they post. I care about the ones they don’t. I trust they client code. I don’t trust ANYONES server side code. Their encryption is top of the line and an industry standard. But is DOES NOT hide your IP, the time of the day you send messages

      ONCE AGAIN (this is the third time I’m saying this) I like and recommend signal. I have no evil motives nor I’m trying to be paranoid. But let’s not pretend they are perfect.

      If you are hurt because I said mean things about a company you base your personality on, that is not my problem.