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Voor wie ook niet langer achter het nieuwe beleid van #Meta kan staan en de wissel van #Whatsapp naar #Signal wil maken, stel ik een nationale #overstapdag voor. Inclusief beeld om vrij te gebruiken in de communicatie naar je contacten.

For those who also can no longer get behind #Meta's new policy and want to make the switch from #Whatsapp to #Signal, I propose a national #switchover day. Including images to use freely in communicating to your contacts.

@sylv_a Good idea! I made my own version, without silo'd messaging platforms.

@snikket_im

@kolev @sylv_a

Isn't Snikket
@snikket_im just a XMPP Client?

Or are there any advantages over - say Dino or Converstions?

@chbmeyer Sort of. It does have nice features for inviting people to your Snikket server, though. @sylv_a @snikket_im

@kolev @sylv_a @snikket_im

Thank you for your explanation. Ah, okay, I see. It is server, Android and iOS App, so it seem to be the same 'environment' for all usecases. ...

I'm happy with my ejabberd server.
Is it possible to use iOS Snikket with ejabberd (by entering server adress, username and password)?
So it possibly could be an extension for my usecase (ejabberd, with Conversations via F-Droid and Dino).

@chbmeyer I don't know how well Snikket iOS works with non-Snikket server configuration. Snikket had to do some stuff to get notifications to work on iOS. @sylv_a @snikket_im

monal-im.org :xmpp:

@kolev @chbmeyer @sylv_a @snikket_im I'd use with ejabberd. It should just work (and of course it works with prosody or snikket servers, too)

@Monal @kolev @sylv_a @snikket_im thank you!

Sadly (or should I say luckily?) I'm no iOS user, so I'm not able to test it.
Some 5 - 8 years ago someone used my ejabberd with monal (and a different iOS client i don't remember, too), but he wasn't that lucky at all. It could be that he expected XMPP to be more homogenous and widespread as - say signal or so.

IIRC there has been issues with iOS, too and I think there has been a difference in functionallity to Conversations using android, i.e. with video calls, OMEMO or groups.
Has there been any improvements in the last years?
I think that's a pro for snikket to have the same app / user experience for both OSes, but I'm still happy with Conversations on Android.

Next time, I again will advice monal to try it out. I think it is a good and promising iOS XMPP client.

@chbmeyer @kolev @sylv_a @snikket_im To be honest wasn't really usable at all ~5 years ago, but has improved *a lot* since then.

We rewrote almost everything: push notifications, private groupchats and public channels all work reliably now. We also added proper support for audio and video calls compatible with Conversations and Dino etc.

@Monal @kolev @sylv_a @snikket_im thanks a lot! This is good news and a good thing for iOS environment and users!