Notices tagged with tox
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 04:08:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @clacke I initially saw "Tox" and thought about the #P2P messenger called #Tox. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 18:19:27 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} In any case, the pub outage tells me that #SSB, in its current design, is unsuitable for connecting regular people together.
Maybe I'll look at #Jami again to see whether it's made progress toward fixing its issues.
Or #Tox, or #Briar. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 05-Oct-2020 00:33:27 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Okay look. *I* don't use #Signal ( and same for #Telegram ), because I don't want to give my telephone number to anyone except family and close friends. I have enough personal contacts that do use them so that they'd be personally useful if I didn't have that unbreakable obstacle.
But I don't object to others choosing such end-to-end encrypted messengers over messaging apps such as (for example) #Facebook_Messenger.
I personally use #Wire, #XMPP, #Matrix, and #WickrMe. (I tried #Jami, but it wasn't very usable yet; none of my contacts were willing to try #Tox or #Briar.) I've even considered getting a Google account again so I can use whatever their latest incarnation of messaging is (just because almost everyone I know has a Google account).
It does bother me that Signal and Telegram and most other messaging services are centralized and non-federated.
It seems we haven't learned from the 1990s & early 2000s when some friends had AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), some had MSN Messenger, some had Yahoo Messenger, some had ICQ, and a few had various other walled garden messengers (such as Excite's messenger). If I wanted to talk with all my friends, I needed to have accounts on every possible service. I should be able to communicate with my friends from whatever service I choose to use to whatever services they choose to use and not have to create accounts on every possible service.
But that's a matter of educating our friends and family, not of dogmatically refusing to communicate with them on any service they might use. -
Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2020 20:42:54 UTC Strypey @hexmasteen
> I just posted an overview.Link please?
> one I'm not very familiar with and generally skeptical towards.
For good reason ;) Perhaps Session offers something not possible with non-blockchain chat P2P like #Jami and #Tox apps, or the many existing #blockchain-based social media projects:
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/blockchain-social-appsBut the burden of proof is definitely on them.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 00:21:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I should find my notes about my experiences with #Ring / #Jami and #Matrix. I have not written any notes about #Wire (which I use daily) or about #Tox or #Briar (easy; no contacts will test either, so I have no experiences with them). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 12:59:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @bob #Tox was one of four things (Tox, #Ring, #Matrix, #Wire) I tried to get family members to try out a couple of years back. None of them ever did, so I cannot say whether Tox is useful (being that I have never actually used it). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2018 14:24:45 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @silkevicious I use !XMPP, #Wire, and #Matrix ( via the #Riot client ). I formerly tried #Ring (but after an update, I needed to reconnect to all my contacts) and #Tox ( a new ID on each device, so contacts never know how to reach you quickly ). -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 17:53:16 UTC Hallå Kitteh @herrabre
> I wish #Briar were out of beta. It's the only one that is actually radically decentralized!
#tox https://tox.chat/
#ring https://ring.cx/ -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 13:55:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @mike Do you have an #XMPP account? Or #Ring, #Tox, #Wire? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 05:58:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @rw Do you have an #XMPP account? Or #Matrix? Or maybe #Ring, #Tox, #Wire? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 00:15:03 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Time to start planning our Christmas videochats. I want to keep them brief, but I want to make sure I get to see and talk with the sons, grandkids, and other family members. #Ring? #Wire? #WebRTC? #Tox? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 18:13:03 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @marxistvegan "Using" is too strong of a word. I am trying #Wire (along with #Ring and #Tox) for intra-family messaging. So far, one text and one video conversation on Wire, so no verdict yet. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 23:50:52 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @bobjonkman Did you also look at #Ring ( https://ring.cx/ ) and #Tox ( https://tox.chat/ ) ? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 22:50:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @bobjonkman @bob One thing I am looking for in all this (and which #Ring, #Tox, and #Wire seem to be providing) is integrated audio/video chats. They ( #Daddy_A and his wife ) normally want to use Skype or Facetime (neither of which I have or use), and they have Apple devices, so no #WebRTC support either. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 00:41:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @forteller I've never seen Snapchat, so I do not know what it is like, but I'm currently trying out #Ring, #Tox, #Wire. Still too early to make any kind of statement, but I believe all are encrypted. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 16:24:12 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Spamming the kids with my contact info for #Ring and #Tox. Wanting to connect so we can test them out soon and hopefully share a video call on Thanksgiving. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 02:32:06 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Planning to trial #ring, #tox, #wire ... assuming I can get one or more of #sonOne, #sonTwo, #Daddy_A, #faveNephew, #LG to try them out with me.