The #XMPP Newsletter for February 2025 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!
xmpp.org/2025/03/the-xmpp-news…
Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕ 
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization
Good news everyone, Movim 0.30 codename Encke ☄️ is finally there! 🥳
This release is actually way bigger than you might think! Movim is bringing group-call to all your devices and still rely 100% on the XMPP standard (it is even compatible with @dino ✨).
In this new version you'll also find a lot of improvements in the UI, a better integration of the Stories and a new way to personalize how Movim looks 🎨 .
Thanks to @nlnet and for their support ❤️.
Share the good new around and invite your friends to join Movim 😊 !
The complete release-note: mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…
#release #movim #xmpp #nlnet #videocall #stories
Only a few months after the previous version here comes Movim 0.30, codename Encke ☄️ This…mov.im
I think I’ve found a relatively nice solution for #FediLinks in #Conversations_im.
You can put web+ap URIs into a message (or room description) and ideally a click on those will open your Mastodon client. However if no installed app supports those (the only app that I’m aware of is Fedilab) Conversations will open a browser instead.
Currently no app will create web+ap links but it is fairly easy to handcraft them.
cc @SoniEx2
#Monocles Chat makes #XMPP experience better.
Help them by donating to their fundraiser for the awesome work they are doing startnext.com/en/monocles.
XMPP network needs you because we don't have VC funding or corporate donors.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Jabber #fundraiser
Secure communication, fair cloud, ethical hardware - monocles offers a digital solution without tracking, without surveillance, without compromise.startnext.com
The XMPP Software Foundation has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support true messaging interoperability using the XMPP protocol.
Meta had previously integrated this protocol, and WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP for its message routing system.
We support this initiative as it represents the best approach for genuine interoperability. Federation is the way to go !
Learn more by reading the open letter: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…
Movim offers a feature-packed social and chat alternative to the big centralized and proprietary platforms. ✨
It is decentralized, fully built on the #XMPP Internet standard and can easily be deployed on a simple web server.
Which social or chat platform do you think Movim replaces the best? 🤔
#alternative #madeineurope #decentralized @european_alternatives
I recently developed a thing to turn a Conversations chat* into a PDF.
codeberg.org/moji/typst-conver…
That story began with a friend of mine that had got a XMPP group chat where they shared updates and pictures of their latest travel adventure. Now chat is rather ephemeral and they wanted to preserve those memories in an easy accessible format that is PDF. And so I put something together.
* actually any chat as long as you can get the raw data in the expected format
#typst #conversations #chat #pdf #xmpp
A parametrized Typst document to visualize a chat conversation with text and image messages — closely matching the design of Conversations.Codeberg.org
There are no known security issues with "Siacs OMEMO" / OMEMO v0.3¹ despite of what some very loud Signal fans would like you to believe. It has been audited by a third party² who took a longer look at it than all of the Signal fans combined.
Yes, #OMEMO v0.7+ (or TWOMEMO 😜) is a cleaner spec with more features (most notably Stanza Content Encryption). That’s why we wrote it. I’m a co-author. That doesn’t mean v0.3 is insecure.
¹: xmpp.org/extensions/attic/xep-…
²: conversations.im/omemo/audit.p…
#XMPP
This specification defines a protocol for end-to-end encryption in one-on-one chats that may have multiple clients per account.Andreas Straub
Deine Daten. Deine Regeln. Deine digitale Zukunft.
monocles startet heute seine Crowdfunding Kampagne auf StartNext! 🎉
monocles bietet die Lösung für eine europäische Unabhängigkeit von Big Tech. Sei es der Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselte Chat, der sichere E-Maildienst oder die privatsphärefreundlichen Smartphones mit unserem eigenen Betriebssystem. monocles schafft ein dezentrales, faires und ethisches digitales Ökosystem für alle.
Seid dabei!
Sichere Kommunikation, faire Cloud, ethische Hardware – monocles bietet eine digitale Lösung ohne Tracking, ohne Überwachung, ohne Kompromisse.startnext.com
I just released version 1.10.0 of slixmpp! It has one important security fix as well as nice improvements on TLS connectivity!
blog.mathieui.net/slixmpp-1.10…
It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.
The #DMA targets walled gardens and messaging interoperability. Meta, the designated gatekeeper, offers an solution that falls short of its goals.
The XMPP Standards Foundation (@xmpp) publishes an Open Letter to Meta, to advocate for adoption of #XMPP for messaging interoperability.
The letter: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…
Technical briefing: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…
The corresponding blog post: xmpp.org/2025/03/open-letter-t…
#XSF Announcement
Today the #XMPP Standards Foundation publishes an Open Letter to urge #Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging #interoperability.
It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.
xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…
#jabber #chat #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard #dma
Meet us at our stall at #LucknowFOSS on the 12th of April.
Event details 👉 fossunited.org/c/lucknow/2025
Thanks to @FOSS United
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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A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.dino.im
Gajim 2.0.4 has been released 🥳
This release brings improvements to Gajim’s Start Chat window and fixes some issues in group chats
Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️
Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim
gajim.org/post/2025-03-20-gaji…
Hop, je viens de mettre à jour mon article d'installation de serveur #XMPP pour le passage à Prosody 13.0.0 :
toutetrien.lithio.fr/article/i…
Ça consiste basiquement à retirer le module "posix" déprécié et renommer le module "server_contact_info" en "server_info".
Article mis à jour le 18/06/2023 pour Prosody 0.12.3 Article mis à jour le 15/08/2024 pour améliorer la sécurité et corrections Article mis à jour le 24/02/2025 pour les modules, Turn et des composants Article mis à jour le 18/03/2025 pour Prosody 13…Tout Et Rien
Welcome to a new major release of the Prosody XMPP server! While the 0.12 branch has served us well for a while now, this release brings a bunch of new features we’ve been busy polishing.blog.prosody.im
Gajim 2.0.3 has been released 🥳
This release fixes some group chat issues and allows to store individual window sizes.
Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️
Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim
gajim.org/post/2025-03-15-gaji…
🚨 New blog posts 🚨
No more slidge: nicoco.fr/blog/2025/03/13/no-m…
Slidge has a new home: slidge.im/blog/2025/03/13/new-…
#xmpp
Just released version 1.9.1 of the slixmpp #python #xmpp library.
Release notes: blog.mathieui.net/slixmpp-1.9.…
Gajim 2.0.2 has been released 🥳
This release updates message moderation in group chats, improves handling of URIs, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️
Support Gajim: liberapay.com/Gajim
gajim.org/post/2025-03-10-gaji…
Maybe time for people and groups to start considering #Matrix for their current #Discord servers, as Discord becomes focused on getting money out of everyone who uses it, with likely enshitification beginning soon. #XMPP/#Jabber is also an alternative.
Both are decentralized, publicly owned services, where you can interact with anyone else regardless of which server they choose to be hosted on, just like Mastodon, et al.
kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-…
The video game chat platform is reportedly exploring a Wall Street IPOEthan Gach (Kotaku)
Gajim 2.0.1 has been released 🎉
This release resolves an issue with Gajim’s preferences window and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!
Support Gajim: liberapay.com/Gajim
What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).
Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:
Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.
XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.
IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go. #a11y #accessibility
Gajim 2.0.0 has been released 🎉
Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. ⏩
Additionally, this release brings improved image previews, better tools for fighting spam, and much more.
All of these changes were only possible by touching a lot of Gajim’s code base, and we appreciate all the feedback we got from you. ❤️
gajim.org/post/2025-02-28-gaji…
Support us: liberapay.com/Gajim
Bonjour ici, dans le cadre de mon projet MIO ⊛ je fais un sondage pour savoir combien vous êtes prêt à payer un service pour chatter depuis une seule appli et un seul compte avec des gens sur #xmpp #matrix #sip mais aussi #whatsapp et #facebook_messenger sans avoir de compte chez eux !!
Si c’est pas clair, un peu plus de détails là : mio.chat/
#interoperabilite avec #mio_chat
#boost apprécié ! 🙏 🤗
My grandmother recently got locked out of #WhatsApp because her phone broke, and the spare one we had on hand is one WhatsApp has decided is too old to run on 💀
Fortunately, #XMPP has no such qualms! She's currently keeping up with the family group chat on #Quicksy while others of us use #Conversations, #DinoIM, and #Gajim. (Of course, extended family and friends are another matter 😔)
This serves as a reminder that closed apps may close you out—but open protocols have your back forever!
