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  1. My grandmother recently got locked out of because her phone broke, and the spare one we had on hand is one WhatsApp has decided is too old to run on 💀

    Fortunately, has no such qualms! She's currently keeping up with the family group chat on while others of us use , , and . (Of course, extended family and friends are another matter 😔)

    This serves as a reminder that closed apps may close you out—but open protocols have your back forever! :xmpp:

  2. About XMPP universe-ality, Jingle is an extension adding peer-to-peer #P2P signaling, such as in #VoIP and video-conferencing. Some software using XMPP Jingle. From wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol):

    #Asterisk PBX #telephony
    #Coccinella
    #Conversations
    #Empathy
    #FreeSWITCH
    #Gajim
    GoogleTalk for Gmail, Android
    #iChat
    #Jitsi
    #KDE #Telepathy
    #Kopete
    #Miranda NG
    #Monal IM-Client
    #Pidgin
    #Psi
    #QIP Infium
    #Yate
    #RemoteVNC
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    Also #DinoIM dino.im

  3. @devinprater well, for a start I stopped using Facebook and never got onto Telegram (okay, kinda a bit for a little while) 😅

    So my texting is restricted to pure XMPP through , , and (very occasionally, more rarely) 🗨️

    Well not "purely"; I also have (yes, the Google one) for the friends of mine who haven't switched... :loading: