@janvlug The same way, not every user will have to modify #FreeSoftware to benefit from right to modify.

Why should we accept the monopoly of a single organization to make changes on the server ? Especially those of us in the Free Software community who understand Free Software includes the right to modify.

When we can have both a simplified option for masses (#Quicksy and #Prav) AND choices for people who need (Monocles Chat, Snikket, Monal etc), then why give up on choices ? #xmpp

@janvlug We already improved #Quicksy with #Prav for SMS delivery. In countries like Nepal and Brazil, Quicksy SMS was not working. We changed our SMS provider in Prav and Prav SMS works in these countries.

So even if every person can't modify the server, as a collective, we can change the server too. For users this comes as choices. Both Quicksy and Prav are hosted and operated from outside US. So people get a choice of laws applicable to the service as well.

@janvlug #Signal is better than #WhatsApp, but still centralized. The entire world depending on a Single organization is not very sustainable. We have Quicksy and Prav both giving the same convenience of Signal without lock-in. #Quicksy and #Prav users can talk to each other and to any other #XMPP app.

To actually practice the freedom to improve a software, we should be able to self host the server part (not necessarily each person has to self host, but that option can offer real choice).

@lascapi @debacle @Goffi @xmpp @snikket_im @daniel Thing is I would see it easier to convince family and friends to use such a system if I can tell that they can use it w anyone else too.

I convince them, they convince others.

I would be self hosting but for the majority that do not know how, they could use #quicksy and the two systems would interoperate.

@iznogoud @xmpp indeed, contact discovery is an identified issue.

There are some answers, such as Snikket from @snikket_im which uses an invitation mechanism, or Quicksy authored by @daniel which uses phone number as other IM platforms.

I have ideas for another decentralized contact discovery mechanism, but lacking time to work on it and specify it right now. @debacle is also interested in working on such specification.

There are also public search mechanisms.

@bshankar I wanted to comment on your blog post https://bshankar.pages.dev/getting-family-on-xmpp/ (saw it on fsci group)

#Quicksy would have been the simpler option for most people. But unfortunately Quicksy is mostly driven by a single person from Germany and mass adoption and publicity seem to be not a priority for them. So we are trying to promote the idea of Quicksy through a cooperative run project called @prav You are welcome to join this effort to take the idea Quicksy to the masses.

Any developers willing to port/adapt/rewrite #ejabberd api component of #Quicksy server to work with #prosody #xmpp server?

Basically we want to create xmpp accounts via a server component after verifying phone number with sms otp.

Currently it is possible to do this on ejabberd, but adding prosody support will make it easy to add phone number verification to prosody as well. Adding phone number verification or an invite to create account will help stop #spam accounts by a huge margin.

@Linux
#Quicksy is an app (iOS and Android) and an XMPP provider, both free.
You get an XMPP address of the form phonenumber@quicksy.im after SMS confirmation. This gets you automatic contact discovery from your address book, and you're part of the federated XMPP network (ie, you can chat with XMPP self-hosters).
I personally don't want my phone number anywhere, but Grandmas may want it, for a user experience similar to WhatsApp, Signal, etc.

@kravemir As @praveen mentioned that #Signal is verifiably end-to-end encrypted due its source code being available. Similar is true for #Prav and #Quicksy. All the messages are end-to-end encrypted by default using the OMEMO protocol.

Moreover, you can learn about OMEMO here https://conversations.im/omemo/. The link contains a security audit of OMEMO by a third party as well.

Finally, I think collective control and transparency are the key as things can always be improved.

@kravemir @ravi Matrix and Signal has more marketing going for them. Matrix is philosophically on same level as #Prav and #Quicksy, but it needs more resources to run. Signal is definitely better than #WhatsApp since it has #FreeSoftware client, so we can verify its end to end encryption don't have any backdoors. But Signal don't give you a choice to move to a different app later without having to convince every other contact. People can easily switch between Prav and Quicksy.