The Great Migration 🚀

Buage

@dansup Signal is good but i'd say Session is the best in my opinion

kitkat

@dansup Signal isn't federated or open -> Matrix/XMPP

pr06lefs

@dansup I knew about John Mastodon, but now John Peertube?

Néuro

@dansup friendica is horrible. just horrible, the other apps are great, but still have weird flaws. like in mastodon, if I see a post that is really really really really long it takes forever to scroll past it, especially if this person spams. there is no "see more" text to a long text. and in mastodon just replying to you, is a small window to the left of the post.

peertube won't won't without money for the creators, somehow.

Ben

@dansup signal isnt open source or federated, is it?

KipJayChou ⁂

@dansup

And
Pivix To Misskey
Misskey To Sharkey
Reddit To Lemmy

ArcaneChat

@dansup

> Federated

Signal??? really???

more like The Great Joke

Petorious Wangus

@dansup In what possible sense of the word is signal federated? I genuinely was unaware of this.

Elisabetta

@dansup I have been using Matrix on FluffyChat and Element X instead of WhatsApp and it's just amazing. I prefer it to Signal.

Martina Neumayer

@kitkat Client app is open source, but not the server part. It isn't federated and additionally is very dependent on the aws infrastructure.

@dansup

Howard Chu @ Symas

@dansup @matrix @xmpp signal still just crashes on startup on my Huawei phone. It apparently uses google APIs so it certainly isn't escaping from BigTech.

damianwalsh

@dansup LinkedIn → ? Someone should do that, just sayin’

Radiation Craziness

@pwm It's not; that's why there's an asterisk by it with a note at the bottom.
I'm guessing he added it as there's not really a federated messaging platform at the level of WhatsApp yet.

Radiation Craziness

@hyc I've used it just fine on a De-Googled Pixel running GrapheneOS without G Play Services. Might be something specific with Huawei, but I have no clue

Ulmo

@dansup @matrix @xmpp I wish people would use Simple X en masse instead of WhatsApp.

Petorious Wangus

@techindepth27 oh the post got edited, I see.
Deltachat would be a sane suggestion in its place imo as it runs over email. Alas.

adb

@dansup fixed one of the images for you

Radiation Craziness

@pwm Looks interesting, I don't think I've heard of Deltachat before. By far the biggest issue with new messaging apps is you have to get everyone you're talking to to switch too and I just got most of them to get Signal so I don't think I'm going to be able to get them to switch again lol

Bloodaxe

@dansup @matrix @xmpp Part of me wish I had all of these services, but just one identity/login between them.

Petorious Wangus

@techindepth27 Deltachat provides an interface and equivalent (if not better) encryption to signal/telegram/whatsapp. You can run their dedicated chatmail suite of software or even point the thing at any email server with imap (I host my own using maddy this way). Which is pretty strong for adoption imo because everyone has email already.
I use the hell out of it for internet people and cannot recommend it highly enough.
But yeah, the main problem of setting up software to talk to people is that you largely only get to talk to people already using it. As before, that's partially solved by the fact that everyone has email so the only barrier is installing an app, but even that's too much friction for many.