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I'm excited to announce that #Convo, my #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS has received a grant from @nlnet, or, more specifically, @NGIZero! 🎉 🤸

https://nlnet.nl/project/Convo/

I can now turn what began as a quick project made in a providential three weeks of free time into an app that can...actually do basic things like add contacts 😅

More importantly, it'll make the open and standardised messaging protocol available to a mobile platform where few large players have dared to tread 👟

#NLnet #NGIzero

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I'm excited to announce that #Convo, my #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS has received a grant from @nlnet, or, more specifically, @NGIZero! 🎉 🤸

https://nlnet.nl/project/Convo/

I can now turn what began as a quick project made in a providential three weeks of free time into an app that can...actually do basic things like add contacts 😅

More importantly, it'll make the open and standardised messaging protocol available to a mobile platform where few large players have dared to tread 👟

#NLnet #NGIzero

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A printout of an NGI Zero Commons fund information document, with a few things placed on top. Diagonally from top left to bottom right are: A Nokia 8110 "Bananaphone", an amigurumi (crochet) axolotl, and a Nokia 2720 Flip phone. On the top right corner of the paper is a round clockwork hen named clock-a-doodle-doo.

Both phones are running the Convo app: one with an empty group chat list, and another with a list of conversations. If you look closely and get past the pixellation and blurred-ness, you might recognise group chats with icons for: Convo, XSF Communications Team, XSF Discussion, and JoinJabber General Chat.

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Just "released" the first usable version of #Convo, an #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS and #JioPhone feature phones! :xmpp:

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/con vo/releases/tag/0.1.0

I was hoping to release a more complete version as 1.0, but that's taking a while, and people are already starting to use it as it is (especially with the impending shuttering of #WhatsApp on KaiOS) so I decided to get this out right away 📦

I've also submitted to the #BananaStore, so hopefully it should be out there soon 🍌

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Just "released" the first usable version of #Convo, an #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS and #JioPhone feature phones! :xmpp:

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/con vo/releases/tag/0.1.0

I was hoping to release a more complete version as 1.0, but that's taking a while, and people are already starting to use it as it is (especially with the impending shuttering of #WhatsApp on KaiOS) so I decided to get this out right away 📦

I've also submitted to the #BananaStore, so hopefully it should be out there soon 🍌

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Screenshot of the Convo app running on KaiOS, listing various open conversations.

Visible chats (with truncated titles) are: Convo - XMPP messaging; Prav - Reclaiming choice, and Friend; JoinJabber General Chat.

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New chat screen on Convo, showing tabs for "Contacts" and "Group chats".

To avoid exposing actual contacts' names without their consent, the names in this screenshot are modified to the fictional "Ned", "Lad Lysa", "ed" and "BRAN"

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Screenshot of an open conversation in Convo. The conversation so far is the action "badrihippo-alt joins the room once again" followed by a message saying "Looks like we also need to add support for opening links". A profile picture is shown next to the actions and message bubbles, but in this case that "picture" is just an alphabet

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The Convo splash screen, which is basically an iconified XMPP logo in purple, inside a white speech bubble, on a purple background.

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Hello everyone!

I use Xubuntu and try to go the #foss way as much as possible :duckduckgo: :gimp: :firefox: :xubuntu: :fdroid: :nextcloud:

I've been using Diaspora and the Friendica for a while—now decided to give Mastodon a go! #introductions #newhere

Also trying to get my friends to join the #fediverse (though that's a slow process 😕).

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Hello everyone!

I use Xubuntu and try to go the #foss way as much as possible :duckduckgo: :gimp: :firefox: :xubuntu: :fdroid: :nextcloud:

I've been using Diaspora and the Friendica for a while—now decided to give Mastodon a go! #introductions #newhere

Also trying to get my friends to join the #fediverse (though that's a slow process 😕).