My concern about XMPP is how much the server knows about you/contacts. Or you have to install E2EE plugins. Or you have to set it up for Tor. It’s annoying. HOWEVER, it does have the advantage of security separation, instead of having it all wrapped up into a single point of failure.
look i feel you and indeed XMPP admins can know a lot and even reset your password if they want and but the thing is some xmpp servers are big and i’m sure they will not ruin their reputation that easily.
Also the huge plus with XMPP is that setting up a raspberry pi at home is pretty easy so there shouldn’t be a need for big servers. In the future the one IT person in every Family/Friendgroup could set up snikket and have friends and family use it.
I doubt we will find a chat solution that’s more secure than that.
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i use xmpp for myself. it’s absolute god
We got problems around matrix (metadata) and signal (as you seen in the post) but i do not hear much about xmpp is bad :P
My concern about XMPP is how much the server knows about you/contacts. Or you have to install E2EE plugins. Or you have to set it up for Tor. It’s annoying. HOWEVER, it does have the advantage of security separation, instead of having it all wrapped up into a single point of failure.
look i feel you and indeed XMPP admins can know a lot and even reset your password if they want and but the thing is some xmpp servers are big and i’m sure they will not ruin their reputation that easily.
Also the huge plus with XMPP is that setting up a raspberry pi at home is pretty easy so there shouldn’t be a need for big servers. In the future the one IT person in every Family/Friendgroup could set up snikket and have friends and family use it.
I doubt we will find a chat solution that’s more secure than that.