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Charlotte Aten

Getting started with XMPP/Jabber and PGP for federated, encrypted messaging

This is a short thread where I explain how I started using the XMPP protocol and PGP encryption for secure messaging. I am not a security expert, but I am a mathematician and I am confortable with the Linux command line. This guide is for people who want to use PGP for secure messaging easily. You will need to be okay with typing commands into the Linux command line in order to do this, but I will tell you exactly what to enter.

Part 1: XMPP

Mastodon is like email, but for social media. You sign up for an account with a server, and then you can talk with any other accounts that are signed up on other servers, as long as your servers are getting along. (No one wants emails from the sketchy spam server, and we want to be able to choose between Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the same thing for text messaging.

Just like signing up for an email/Mastodon account, you need to sign up for an account. You can find a list of servers at list.jabber.at/ and will probably at least need to provide an email addess when making an account.

Once you have made an account, you need a client. On Linux, I've been having a good time using Dino (dino.im/). You can then enter your account name and password to log into your XMPP account and start chatting! There are both public rooms and you can also message directly with your friends.

#security #PGP #XMPP #FOSS #Jabber #Dino #MonoclesChat

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contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@HistoPol @debacle @thevril @pluralistic Quicksy is a great #Jabber / #XMPP service (with Android and iOS clients), which is trivially easy to join. Uses phone numbers for registration.
quicksy.im/

@prav is a fork of Quicksy with only an Android client for now, but with message moderation and retraction support, a #cooperative structure, and better customer support.
prav.app/
Why Prav is Important
contrapunctus.codeberg.page/bl

#Signal #WhatsApp #Telegram #Threema

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QuicksyQuicksyA spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery. Sign up with your phone number and Quicksy will automatically—based on the phone numbers in your address book—suggest possible contacts to you.
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@debacle

#XMPP #Messenger #SocialMedia ownership

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Thank you for the clarification. I did state (at least in the convo mentioned) that #XMPP is (but) a protocol.
The FOSS messenger(s) based on it, however, to my knowledge, are but niche apps for the technologically savvy.--No-one of my RL contacts has ever mentioned it (no a represantive sample, OFC.)

#Jabber, w/o having any further knowledge other than the superficial one...

@thevril @pluralistic

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@thevril @pluralistic @kino

#SurveillanceState

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

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....value anymore.👈 The future of #Matrix always seems somehow, em.. unconfirmed? An interesting project. I wonder where it will go. There's been a LOT of #VC [#VentureCapital] funding up to now, one might assume some return is expected at some point. Maybe not though. I've run #Jabber servers in the past,...

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JoinJabber

JoinJabber has a channel/chatroom reccomendation page now in case you are new to Jabber/XMPP and are looking for places to hangout.

joinjabber.org/docs/faqs/rooms

The list was compiled with safety and protection of marginalized people in mind so that all rooms in the list are safe to join. The criteria we are using for the list are written on the top of the page.

Any new room additions to the list are welcome. 😀

JoinJabberChannel/Chatrooms recommendationsChannel/Chatrooms recommendations for newbies
#Jabber#XMPP#chat
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Jan Penfrat

European Parliament #security advice after #China hacked #US infrastructure: Use plaintext #Microsoft Teams and only use encrypted @signalapp if Teams is unavailable. 🤷

Politico: "Parliament’s email reminded lawmakers they should use (...) Teams and #Jabber when possible and only #Signal if the two are unavailable."

“The use of Signal is proposed as a safe alternative in cases where no equivalent corporate tool is available,” the Parliament’s press service said in a statement.

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@janantos @sbb @nirro @bojkotiMalbona @daniel @dino @Monal

Note, that e.g. Signal is not "one app serves all". There is no client for Linux (or Windows), that would work without having an additional Android device. This is one of the reasons I can't use Signal even if I wanted to. (I don't have Google Android nor Apple iOS and don't want to.)

Both #Jabber/#XMPP and Matrix are much better in this aspect. Delta Chat and Briar not yet, but I have hope.

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