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It's 2018 and there's no single messaging/chat/instant messaging app that is/has:
* FOSS
* encrypted/security-aware
* plain-text export of all messages for all time
* search across all messages
@vickysteeves What about #xmpp? Or maybe #signal?
@gwenn no plain text export or searching on signal, unfortunately (I use it currently for texting).
I tried xmpp and found it a bit difficult. I can take another look though I suppose, if you like it?
@gwenn ah there is a search in signal!!! that must have just come out. WOW! I will try the new backup. God I hope they fixed this.
@vickysteeves You're welcome.
@vickysteeves What about XMPP did you find difficult?
@zash there are a lot of moving parts for me/the threshold of tech knowledge is high
it's also more for 1-1 chats right?
@vickysteeves I wouldn't say that it's more for 1-1 chats, but that part has been pretty solid for a long time IMO. Well, until "encryption" became a hip feature recently and everything became impossibly hard again.
What do you mean by moving parts? Like in many FOSS projects, it is easy to get behind non-coding parts. The XMPP community is becoming more aware of this and there are some efforts towards making onboarding and such easier.
What do you mean by moving parts? Like in many FOSS projects, it is easy to get behind non-coding parts. The XMPP community is becoming more aware of this and there are some efforts towards making onboarding and such easier.
@vickysteeves Did you tried the backup function in #signal? In newer versions i can use searching over all chats. #xmpp is powerfull, but you need more technical skills. There are huge clients, api, servers....