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@akrabu Thanks for the info and links. Others have been talking of Pidgin but I've used Gajim a little bit when I set up a XMPP server to talk with one friend who is rightfully distrustful of lots of communication technology being abused by corporations and governments.
2023-07-13 · 10 months ago
🦂 akrabu [OP] · 2023-07-13 at 22:41:
@norayr Pidgin! I had forgotten all about that one. Used that one for years after Gaim.
🦂 akrabu [OP] · 2023-07-13 at 22:42:
@StanStani Yeah, Pidgin was a good one. I'm intrigued by Dino.im and Profanity now, because of that other post haha
🐙 norayr · 2023-07-13 at 22:49:
still using it. (: my only way of chatting is xmpp. it is pidgin and dino. i don't like dino because it works much slower than pidgin, does more i/o for some reason. and it is sort of 'mobile', shows one window, while i like this many windows interface of pidgin.
pidgin has very useful plugins and feels much more flexible.
nowadays in xmpp world omemo is sort of de-facto standard for e2e encryption, and there is no plugin for it, alas.
oh, i remembered. for some time i had to work in a company that used slack - i connected via pidgin plugin from chroot. same with ms teams. same with skype.
but that was for work and temporarily. i would like to be more aligned with my conscience.
🐙 norayr · 2023-07-14 at 13:45:
you can also bring the friend to the number of interesting chatrooms that exist on xmpp. it is possible to browse and check here: https://search.jabber.network/search
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