Privately? Sure, basically impossible.
OP is saying they have to use it, and they want to most private option for their use case. Comments like this acting like privacy is all or nothing is a surefire way to stop people from being interested in online privacy.
To add to this, the Oracle Cloud free teir is totally capable of running a VPN- only probpem is they have credit card KYC.
I'd go either with a Fairphone 5 (or maybe wait for the 6 to release) with CalyxOS or a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS.
Python: Gajim Doesn't support Windows: Dino Outdated: PSI+
Yeah, XMPP has changed a loooott since then.
XMPP's main problems at the moment are clients, in my opinion. There's 3 main clients for PC; one is 100% python (including frontend) and breaks semi-regularly, one does not officially support Windows and thus cuts out a large portion of the community + doesn't have as many features as others, and one lacks features and looks extremely outdated. The state on iOS is even worse as well, and Android is fine but could be better.
If you're considering XMPP again, I'd recommend waiting a few months for Prose https://prose.org/ to fully release, it looks like it'll improve the experience a lot.
To add to this, XMPP is much cheaper to host and offers basically the same features when it comes to what OP needs. I host Prosody and it uses so little resources you could probably get it running on the cheapest server you could find.
Probably far from the best option; but you could use 7zip? Put a 7zip portable exe & linux binary on the usb, put the regular contents in an encrypted .zip file, anyone with the password can decrypt. I assume there are much more secure options though.
Prose is an extremely good looking crosd platform XMPP client coming out very soon, I'm hoping that will help.
Currently XMPP is my preferred federated messaging platform, but to say the clients are bad would be an understatement
The Fediverse is not an app in itself, but rather a collective term for all the services that integrate themselves with the ActivityPub protocol for federation.
This just means all the apps that talk to each other in a specific way.
Now, I don't know anything about Chromebooks or Fire Tablets, but to use Android as an example; I use the app 'Interstellar' to use Mbin. Mbin uses ActivityPub, and therefore is part of the fediverse. Also, I use Moshidon to login to my Iceshrimp.NET account. Iceshrimp also uses ActivityPub and therefore is also a Fediverse service even though it is completely different to Mbin, and I can't log in to Iceshrimp with Interstellar and vice versa.
If you want to find apps for the Fediverse you should look at the websites and source code repositories' readme's to find information about clients. E.G. For Mastodon clients you can check https://joinmastodon.org/apps
Also, if there are no apps for your platform, almost all services let you just use the browser. Like if you have a Mastodon account on https://defcon.social/ you can just open that link in Firefox. Good luck :)
Fair enough. I do think you can view it under a users profile in some Mastodon clients- but only upvotes, not downvotes.
Here is a video of me doing it on my phone with fedia.io: https://files.catbox.moe/nb5rx1.mp4 For some reason it wouldn't show me reduces (downvotes), though.
always good to see people come around :)
you get so used to the toxic idea of people sticking to their guns no matter what on sites like these sometimes