The Great Migration 🚀

Ray McCarthy

@dansup @matrix @xmpp
Japanese owned Viber is a good alternative to WhatsApp.
You can setup so only people in your phone contacts in advance can send, so then no adverts. Group or individual, with a group moderator. Text, voice, images, file transfer and Video.
Encrypted.
Skype was OK till wrecked by MS. Now it's gone.

Radiation Craziness

@LightningToaster Yeah I see that.... that's probably not a good sign

Martina Neumayer

@csolisr Yes I know about it. But the problem with Molly is that, that they doesn't support older android versions anymore. If I remember correctly, the lowest system version on which the app can be installed is 11. Anything older isn't supported, which is pretty big unfortunate for many people.
Btw.. Original Signal also offers two different versions of their app without google blobs included and with UnifiedPush. They are available on their page and from F-Droid repositories.

@dansup @kitkat

ĞÖKÜ👻👻™

@dansup @matrix @xmpp session ??

Carlos Solís

Hold up, mainstream Signal has finally integrated MollySocket then?

Pevin Kinel

@techindepth27 @pwm just wanted to say that actually Delta's onboarding mechanism is the simplest and fastest i've seen. Start it the first time, write your name and that's it. Because it's not linked to a phone number nor pre-existing email, you don't have to go hunting for a confirmation link/code. Made the transition super smooth for a bunch of friends here

@delta

Carlos Solís

Never mind, there is a version of Signal without Google libraries, but instead of using UnifiedPush like Molly does, Signal falls back to direct WebSockets, which requires much more battery consumption in the background unfortunately. github.com/signalapp/Signal-An…

Carlos Solís

Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP.

Carlos Solís

However! Friendica very recently released a new version that finally does something about the slow queries, by adding a cache for network channels. It also includes a few quality-of-life improvements. friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…

Paul Sutton (zleap)

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

Linkedin -> https://nolto.social/

Nebelsturm_Kakumeika

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

windows->LINUX
android->graphenOS
microsoft office->libre office

wakest ⁂

@zleap its a vibe coded thing that doesn't federate at all, and lies on the front page about what it supports, why are you spreading this link

Tedel

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

I believe Diaspora* needs to be included in the next edition of this graphic.

patosz

@gimulnautti @dansup @matrix @xmpp how come? what's the story?

contranym

@dansup sadly, friendica was badly broken when i tried it. and i thought one point of federating was you would only need one account on one service and you could interact with other services on the fediverse. is this not the case? i still dont know how it works because ive only tried to add ppl from bsky, and i guess thats not actually federated, so it requires a bridge i didnt want to mess with. i have a hard enough time finding friends on diff masto instances.

shadowwwind

@Drahngis @dansup the long text thing is a client issue, there are multiple clients that solve that. I believe the Webinterface collapses long text. Moshiodon certainly does.

*The* Paul Brown

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

So why don't you do it properly? It's not that hard:

X ️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG ️ https://pixelfed.org
FB ️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok ️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube ️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp ️ https://matrix.org

You're welcome.

Fuck Signal.

George B

@dansup @damianwalsh

I found one a couple of weeks ago and made an account but lost the URL and it seems to be completely unsearchable.

Maybe someone else will post it in the replies but that isn't really a good sign.

Amal

@dansup @matrix @xmpp
Beautiful

bjoern

@anon_4601 @dansup #deltachat does not require a phone number nor you have to provide your address nor a SIM card is required.

you can use it even without a phone.

it uses SMTP/IMAP under the hood, with a random address. nothing is persisted on the server, for metadata, see https://delta.chat/en/help#message-metadata