Hey Lemmy!
We’ve released gofoss.net, a beginner’s guide to free and open source software, privacy and sustainable tech.
The site is available in English, French and German. We hope that it can help some of you to:
- safely browse the Internet
- encrypt your conversations
- protect your data
- switch to Linux
- free your phone from Google & Apple
- join the Fediverse & use alternative cloud providers
- self-host your stuff
The source code is available on GitLab. Happy to chat, let us know what you think!
For more information, please come find us at gofoss.net :)
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PS: We are 100% non-profit: no ads, no tracking, no sponsored or paywalled content.
It nice that they specifically mention why XMPP isn’t included, but they could also have included a specific client (like they basically do with Matrix) and evaluate that. Conversations for example does do e2ee by default when possible.
A client and server combination like Snikket or Movim could have also been evaluated.
You’re right. We’ve pondered this for quite some time, and if you check older commits you’ll even see that we included Conversations at some point. We really like XMPP (and are also a bit nostalgic). In the end, we however decided to favour messengers which provide encryption out of the box, irrespective which client is used, and give XMPP an “honorable mention”. If there is enough interest, or if people contribute, we can still cover the topic in future releases
I think evaluating Snikket could be a good option in the future as it really is a complete package similar to Matrix. It also has e2ee enabled by default when you are communicating between Snikket users.
Movim also has e2ee now and is a complete package with its PWA capable web-client, but OMEMO isn’t enabled by default for now.
Thx for your feedback! Added GitLab Issue #106 and will look into Snikket when possible