You actually can drag-n-drop pictures to the chat. Just drag them (dropping multiple images is possible) to the message text field and the image will be uploaded and shown in the chat - scaled down if it is big.

Truly disgusting and worrying.

I use my own Piped instance and can watch every video that has no age-restriction. Feels awesome and can highly recommend it.

Disgusting.

Yeah. Let say Signal goes down because of Big Tech and lets say that 50% of their users use Signal as their only messaging app. What will happen then? Hysteria!

No, XMPP all the way for me until Signal becomes decentralized with zero external connections and when they also have removed the phone number requirement.

I totally agree with you. But!

But Signal from what I’ve heard really wants us to use their server.

Signal doesn’t have their own servers. Instead, they rent servers from 4 companies, 3 of them is Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. So Signal is relying on Big Tech and if Big Tech decides that enough is enough, they can easily shut Signal down.

THAT is what I find most terrifying. And why not use their own server? Not enough money, but they are working on it (good).

And to make it a little bit worst: Signal depends on a third party company for sending out SMS. Your phone number is therefore handled by not Signal, but by yet another company, highly likey an American company. And they are against privacy invading companies at the same time they are one. Oh, the irony.

You want sources? Sure.

• https://signal.org/legal/ (below “Information we may share”)
• https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of Signal. But there is flaws that makes Signal more privacy invading than privacy friendly.

Thank you! Finally someone that also sees Signal as privacy invasing!

Ok. Same here, as of now (small group of people). I haven’t noticed any spam even if I have my XMPP address public. In pure text that is, but still.

If that is true, I haven’t noticed anything yet.

No bots in XMPP, please.

Just wanted to thank you for the idea of having an wiki for every relative on my own genealogy website. Thank you! :) Added that feature right after I read your posts maybe 13 days ago.

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I find the quality very good. And there’s no problems with setup a “server” :)

1. Go to the preferred Jitsi Meet server.
2. Enter the meeting name (as it really called) or just press enter to get a random name.
3. Enter your details and options (mainly mic on/off and webcam on/off).
4. Enter the meeting. If you’re the first one in it, you’re the moderator.

Once inside and as a moderator, you can create so called breakout rooms. These works just like subchannels in Discord. If you’re many people in 1 call, you can create these to create a more calmer experience. I have personally not tried these out since I have only talked to 1-2 people.

Mumble is a excellent VoIP software, but like you said, screen sharing is not possible since Mumble is just what VoIP means: voice over IP.

I have the same issue, but got 2 Discord users to try Jitsi Meet with me (a friend of mine on my Snikket server invited her friend). After a while, her friend asked me why it looked so much alike Discord and my friend agreed. I gave them a big smile and said, “because this is awesome”.

Jitsi Meet + Snikket has been my saves since I deleted my Discord account during the pandemic.

You think that Proton and Brave is on the same level of privacy as Google, Apple, and Microsoft?

Still better than Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chome.

They missed to mention Jitsi Meet, posteo.de, Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP (for an example Snikket). But other than that, really good list! 😃

And yes, you can use others servers for Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP/Snikket. No need for self-hosting your own.

Thanks! Will try them out sometime :) Last time I tried download missions (which was maybe 2 months ago), I got 404. Hopefully that issue will be fixed now.

Edit: the error was not 404, but “Cannot connect to server”. I had to execute a command to make it work. Will give one of these missions a shot now.

The Dark Mod ❤️

It is so awful that it’s funny!

I am so happy that I deleted my account on Fecesbook back in 2019. Plus, I am blocking Meta through RethinkDNS. Can’t be more happy!