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by pmlnr 2999 days ago
After playing around with federated XMPP (on my own server): XMPP with OMEMO is brilliant. No battery drain (Conversations and Astrachat tested on android), multi-client e2e encryption, even voice/video is possible. And, being federated, I finally own my identity.
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What's the benefit of end-to-end encryption if you don't have anyone on the other end?
Nobody can read your secrets if you don't have anyone to send them to.
I've underestimated XMPP myself, there's a surprising amount of providers out there.