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2026-01-15 15:56:36

anolandria@mastodon.social

Always a good day to switch. My recommendation is to use both for a while, alternating, until you get comfortable with the decentralized system.

Non corporate media is needed.

#x #mastodon #instagram #pixelfed #whatsapp #facebook #friendica #youtube #peertube #tiktok #loops

2026-01-15 16:13:28

Charlotte Aten

caten@mathstodon.xyz

@anolandria Why not WhatsApp -> #XMPP ?

2026-01-15 19:11:50

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Charlotte Aten Matrix is also a good solution, and has fuller encryption than XMPP.

Signal is centralized. It may be good now — so was Telegram, once. That may not last.

2026-01-15 19:54:00

Charlotte Aten

caten@mathstodon.xyz

@ferret I have a bad impression of Matrix, both in terms of culture and pedigree (that Amdocs company sounds sketchy). There are people who say it's lacking technically, but I can't speak to this myself.

2026-01-15 19:59:41

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Charlotte Aten It's an open standard. You don't need to engage with the Matrix Foundation. My server is Continuwuity, which is run by a team of incredibly queer volunteers.

2026-01-15 20:05:11

Charlotte Aten

caten@mathstodon.xyz

@ferret Idk, the standard could intentionally configure your communications in a way that is more easily monitored via some other pathway the attacker controls. There's also the issue of people relying on reference implementations that may have some less subtle designed flaw.

2026-01-15 20:08:27

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Charlotte Aten That's the value of open source. People have noticed security issues in the protocol, and they've been patched.

2026-01-16 12:39:34

eltheanine

eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja

my experience with matrix: a friend runs synapse, hates it. I ran continuwuity, dislike it not being stable yet as far as development goes. XMPP is old stable and boring and "just works", and is lighter to run on my server, so I use that.

CC: @Charlotte Aten@mathstodon.xyz