EngineerGaming

If they have such "security concerns" with third-party clients, a compromise would be to mark profiles using unofficial clients, and make it possible to see what client it is. Because it's audacious to disapprove of third-party ones while your own lacks features people find important! Such as:

• Allowing an arbitrary proxy rather than just their own solution (because not only is their own solution inferior to some of the more advanced censorship-evading technology, but this is the field that needs multiple options when one stops working. Also if a person uses a proxy for everything else anyway, making them set up a whole separate solution or find someone else's proxy just for your app is pointless.
• UnifiedPush.
• Allowing tying a desktop client by typing a code rather than scanning a QR code, which is important when registering on an Android VM (because again, Signal just arbitrarily disallows account creation on a desktop, nevermind that most phones are very hard or impossible to make private!)

Yeah, I also had encryption problems, especially when I was running Conduit rather than Synapse. However, I never had such problems in XMPP with OMEMO.

To be fair, from Signal's attitude it seems that Molly is tolerated rather than welcomed. And that it may be shut off if it gets big enough.

Yeah, fair.

http://longeepsiteaddress.i2p. Bonus points for having an option for a human-readable domain as well.

Yeah, that's the reason I never fully used their mail. The bridge is a paid-only feature, and they don't accept Monero for some reason, only Bitcoin.

You don't evwn need to "scan" anything - you can copy and paste the steing they provide into, for example, KeepassXC, and then thoroughly back up its database.

There is friction in form of having to create an account and avoiding getting suspended or asked for a phone number, which t today seems about as easy as carding.

For $100, you could rent a VPS for a year and host whatever chat service you want on it, with whatever rules you want.

Well, there was a strip that ends with Calvin touching his rear and saying "What a grouch". So while I don't think he consistently gets corporal punishment, his mom can get mad enough to lose control.

I would never be able to afford Apple tech even if I somehow didn't mind using a phone I cannot install arbitrary apps on. So yeah, no idea. I use RiMusic on my Android, but the downloads happen on the laptop with yt-dlp.

That is exactly what I do. A client on the phone for discovery on the go, later yt-dlp on the laptop and proper tagging.