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Best apps for private messaging (www.privacyguides.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Maragato@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello. I am looking for an alternative to Telegram and I prefer an application that uses decentralised servers. My question is: why is the xmpp+omemo protocol not recommended on websites when it is open source and decentralised? The privacyguides.org website does not list xmpp+omemo as a recommended messaging service. Nor does this website include it in its comparison of private messaging services.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/assets/img/cover/real-time-communication.webp

Why do you think xmpp and its messaging clients such as Conversations, Movim, Gajim, etc. do not appear in these guides?

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[-] shuva_meta@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

You should check out "keet" or "Jami" for privacy message app.

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Jami is nice in theory, but it was very buggy for me when I tried it and Jami calls had no noise cancelling at all. Other than that, it does work.

I cant find the "keet" git repo, I think its proprietary. So thats a no go for privacy.

[-] shuva_meta@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

https://github.com/holepunchto/keet-appling-next

Here is the github link, note that, this is the "shell" of the desktop. There is another repo specifically for android app.

https://keet.io/ is the official website

Developer is holepunch and uses "pear" peer-to-peer protocol.

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I saw that too, that not the full source code. I found another repository for the android releases: https://github.com/holepunchto/keet-mobile-releases

Again, no source code, just binaries. Rather shady I think...

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah Keet (and Pear in general) are doing some open washing, branding their apps as open source while using very restrictive licences, at least that's how I feel about them. It's closer to source available to my eyes.

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

What licenses are these? I only found apache licenses for the stuff they released. But yes, it kinda looks like open washing, since it looks like keet is open source, but its not.