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Best apps for private messaging (www.privacyguides.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Hello. I am looking for an alternative to Telegram and I prefer an application that uses decentralised servers. My question is: why is the xmpp+omemo protocol not recommended on websites when it is open source and decentralised? The privacyguides.org website does not list xmpp+omemo as a recommended messaging service. Nor does this website include it in its comparison of private messaging services.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/assets/img/cover/real-time-communication.webp

Why do you think xmpp and its messaging clients such as Conversations, Movim, Gajim, etc. do not appear in these guides?

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Jami is nice in theory, but it was very buggy for me when I tried it and Jami calls had no noise cancelling at all. Other than that, it does work.

I cant find the "keet" git repo, I think its proprietary. So thats a no go for privacy.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    https://github.com/holepunchto/keet-appling-next

    Here is the github link, note that, this is the "shell" of the desktop. There is another repo specifically for android app.

    https://keet.io/ is the official website

    Developer is holepunch and uses "pear" peer-to-peer protocol.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I saw that too, that not the full source code. I found another repository for the android releases: https://github.com/holepunchto/keet-mobile-releases

    Again, no source code, just binaries. Rather shady I think...

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah Keet (and Pear in general) are doing some open washing, branding their apps as open source while using very restrictive licences, at least that's how I feel about them. It's closer to source available to my eyes.

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