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  RE: https://sciences.social/@annasdtc/117224123424001867 Not everyone can or should self-host, but the technology that enables it—federation, open standards, and vendor independence—also allows cooperatives, municipalities, and community groups to run their own infrastructure. #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Jabber #XMPP

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  Google is raising the minimum SDK version for several core AndroidX libraries to 24 (Android 7). This means that even well-intentioned app developers will have a much harder time supporting Android 6. #Android #OpenSource #Fdroid #Google

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  I just released an update to Conversations that fixes a regression in the accessibility of the attachment selection. Accessibility is important to me, and I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this. If you notice any accessibility problems, please let me know immediately. #XMPP #Conversations_im #Jabber #a11y

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  What feature in Conversations are you looking forward to the most? #XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android

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  We've just finished setting up our XMPP stand at LinuxDays (@linuxdays) in Prague. If you are in the area make sure to visit us. We are here all day today and tomorrow (Sunday). We have stickers and buttons! #XMPP #Jabber #LinuxDays #LinuxDaysCZ

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  If you are in Prague for Linux Days remember to come in early to catch my talk on Jabber/XMPP and 25 Years of Digital Independence. It's the first talk of the day at 10am in room 105. https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2026/talk/H7ANQQ/ #LinuxDays #LinuxDaysCZ #XMPP #Jabber #DigitalIndependance

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  I’m in Luxembourg for the Fair Tech Summit and Open Source Conference Luxembourg. The Fair Tech Summit marks both the conclusion of the Mobifree project and the kickoff of the SuperStack project. Great to meet our partners and friends from F-Droid, /e/OS, UnifiedPush, Delta Chat, Phosh, Taler and many more! #DigitalSovereignty #FairTech #Mobifree #SuperStack #SuperApps #SuperFoss #FDroid #GNUTaler #UnifiedPush

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  Mastodon, Element and Conversations on the same slide. What is this, a crossover episode? https://super-stack.eu #Mastodon #Element #Matrix #XMPP #Conversations_im #Jabber #SuperStack

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  Im Interesse der Dezentralität gibt es meinen Vortrag „Jabber/XMPP: 25 Jahre Digitale Souveränität“ von den Datenspuren letzte Woche übrigens auch auf meinem PeerTube. https://gultsch.video/w/hNgNdVEUxMDex9xqrcofD5 #Datenspuren #XMPP #Jabber #PeerTube #Fediverse

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  RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117195237916916162 If you are excited about my upcoming talk on #XMPP, I encourage you to read my essay, “Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence” (if you haven’t already). The talk will be more technical in nature, but the essay hits on similar topics. Think of it as an extended version of the first five minutes of the talk. https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/

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  I have been invited to the “Datenspuren” conference in Dresden to speak about Jabber/XMPP and 25 years of digital independence. The talk is going to be in German, but I've submitted an English version to other conferences. https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/GF8KMU/

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  There used to be an urban legend that WhatsApp was listening to everything you said. In reality, it was mostly confirmation bias: if you talked to a friend about a dream vacation and later saw ads for it, chances were high you had already googled the destination. Anyway, Apple is now building this exact creepy stalker behavior into the Apple Watch and calling it a feature.

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  Currently doing research for another blog post, and I noticed that WhatsApp and Signal only gained the ability to edit messages in 2023, whereas Conversations has had it since 2016. To this day, both WhatsApp and Signal lack crucial features that Conversations has, like the ability to show what time zone a contact is in. #Jabber #XMPP

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  I’ll be speaking at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg on October 7th! Join me and @larma@mastodon.social as we talk about Jabber/XMPP and 25 years of digital independence. https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/Y3E9VJ/ #OSCL26 #Jabber #XMPP #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

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  Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play. Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore. https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ #XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #OpenSource #Google #GooglePlay

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  I've added my upcoming conference talks to the "Talks" page on my website. Slides are already available for my #Datenspuren talk tomorrow: https://gultsch.de/talks/

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  Die Aufzeichnung meines Vortrags „Jabber/XMPP: 25 Jahre Digitale Souveränität“ von den #Datenspuren ist schon online verfügbar. https://media.ccc.de/v/ds26-678-jabber-xmpp-25-jahre-digitale-souveranitat #XMPP #Jabber

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  Ich war im „Captain, it's Wednesday“-Podcast von GNU/Linux.ch zu Gast und durfte das #UnifiedPush-Projekt vorstellen. Hat mich mega gefreut. Vielen Dank für die Einladung. Wer schon immer mal etwas über Push-Benachrichtigungen ohne Google lernen wollte, dem meine Vorträge aber zu viel sind, kann es hier im praktischen Podcast auch unterwegs oder beim Putzen tun. https://gnulinux.ch/ciw186-podcast

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  Auf der #FrOSCon in St. Augustin darf ich am 15. August noch einmal #UnifiedPush vorstellen. Das ist vermutlich das letzte Mal, dass ich diesen Vortrag in dieser Form halte. https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/dd149428-7db9-44b8-8fa2-d023a4940bb9/ Info-Stände zu #UnifiedPush und #XMPP gibt es auf der FrOSCon ebenfalls.

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  Ich freue mich auch auf den Vortrag „App-Kompatibilität für alle“¹ von Marvin (@larma) und „Der Reichweitenmythos debunked“² von Stephanie (@ueckueck) auf der #FrOSCon. ¹: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/9cf12e1d-2d18-4ef2-95f5-dffdd26f86e3/ ²: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/93f8490a-68b1-4200-97c1-b78b456426cb/

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  We are attending #IETF126 in Vienna. The #XMPP community is represented at the Hackathon and we are hosting a side meeting on Thursday at 15:00 (Park Suite 4) to introduce the idea of bringing XMPP 2.0 back to the IETF.

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  Google is now buying access to source code repositories to train their LLMs. This puts the value of the code they previously stole from the open-source community into a whole new perspective.

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  I’m committed to keeping the quicksy.im XMPP server running for at least 24 months. XMPP servers are extremely efficient. I’m serving the ~1500 concurrent users from a toaster, so the cost of running the server itself was never an issue. Users are however advised to eventually migrate to the app Conversations by backing up the account in Quicksy and importing it into Conversations (write down the Quicksy password beforehand).

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  People don’t understand that this SMS pumping fraud is organized crime on a mafia level. First, they attack your service to deliberately run up SMS fees (splitting the profits among themselves), and then they turn around and try to extort protection money by selling you a subscription to a service that "fixes" the issue. The entire fucking industry is in cahoots.

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  #Quicksy registrations are permanently closed. The project was viable for a long time only because it required minimal effort. However, fighting industrial-scale SMS pumping fraud has become unsustainable, both financially and in terms of workload. The XMPP server will remain online for the foreseeable future, but users are advised to switch their client to #Conversations_im.

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  I’m going to be at #FOSSY in Vancouver in August to talk about #UnifiedPush! https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/372/ There is also a full 2-day track dedicated to #XMPP.

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  @jae We put the instant into instant messaging.

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  #Conversations_im 2.20.0 has been tagged with some significant UI work. • The main screen now features prominent access to search and can suggest contacts to you for quick navigation • The media attachment flow has been reworked and is now closer to the input field. • The tablet layout has been improved and the title bar is now split into two. #XMPP #Jabber #Android

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  #Conversations_im is currently in the Top 50 most download apps on @fdroidorg. In the messaging category it ranks fairly close to #Element X and has almost 3x the downloads of #DeltaChat. Just to give you a perspective on loudness on social media vs reality. https://grote.gitlab.io/fdroid-metrics-distilled/#messaging #XMPP #Jabber #FDroid

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  Element (@element) makes a very big deal out of every single government agency that gives #Matrix a shot. However when you look at what actual people choose to deploy it's #XMPP. https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php (via https://framapiaf.org/@debacle/116618695432651294)