The only downside (for many) to using super secure messengers is that they do not require any e-mail address or phone number to register, so the net result often is you have no idea if some of your contacts join later, and they won’t see you either.
For XMPP Quicksy allows you to create a separate account on their service with your phone number (if you wish to) and in this way you can be alerted if any contacts join via the Quicksy service. This account is completely separate from your day-to-day XMPP account (or you could use it for day-to-day if you wanted to make your phone number known).
It is a fully functional fork of the Conversations app for Android. They explain the privacy policy and data storage policy at the link below. For normal XMPP usage though with existing contacts you have, there is no need to ever advertise your phone number or e-mail address. This is really ONLY intended for those who want to be found by their contacts, and I’d still recommend that you have, and use, a separate XMPP account for your daily usage. Of course if your contacts don’t know about Quicksy, or don’t use it, you still won’t know they are out there on XMPP. If you know your contacts’ XMPP ID’s there is also no need to use Quicksy at all.
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Yes glad to see all alternative social media and messenger sites are experiencing a jump in users. Back in the day Facebook users could also communicate with XMPP. XMPP actually underlies a lot of services that people don’t realise its there, apparently even including Whatsapp.
I suppose for those who want to be found, we’ll see more use of generic ID services or pods (like Sir Tim Berners-Lee) where you identify yourself and can say where else you can be found.
Didn’t know that Facebook used XMPP. I remember Google Talk used to federate with other XMPP clients as well.
Yes correct I remember Google Talk on XMPP. INteresting how these Big Tech lured users in with open XMPP and then later just shut it off to prevent users easily moving out and keeping contact with their friends whoi stay behind. It’s actually quiote devious now that I come to think of it. We did not really notice it as an issue because most people were inside Facebook and Google back then. Facebook has removed their quiet announcement now but it is visible still at the Watback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20180320012841/https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat. I must actually do a post about this as everyone has forgotten about this.
Yeah, I had no idea about Facebook. It is of course the whole “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” idea I suppose. I have no idea what the licence what licence is jabber but maybe that was the “problem”.
Jabber / XMPP the protocol is an open proptocol andone can use freely. Cisco’s Jabber client si a different story.