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by apichat 1960 days ago
To easily get regular folks onboard you should recommand Quicksy (a Conversations spin off made by the same developper) :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...

It's as easy to use and to automatically recognize contacts as Whatsapp and Signal but it's federated to XMPP.

And people who don't use Quicksy host service can register to be easily recognize as a contact :

https://quicksy.im/#get-listed

1 comments

You've commented at least 3 times pushing this service. From their home page:

> We charge a small fee to enter your Jabber ID and phone number into our directory. This cross financing allows us to make Quicksy completely free for its users. If you are a paying customer of the conversations.im hosting service, you can enter your number for free.

As stated on their home page, it's a fork of the Conversations (conversations.im) client with contact discovery which they're selling.

> Quicksy is a spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery.

So it's just a conversations.im client trying to make a buck with a contacts service based on what I can see. Edit: in context in case you didn't know, Matrix (at least via app.element.io -> vector.im) has a contact discovery service, and it already works with phone numbers and email addresses using a blind one-way lookup for privacy.

This is a misunderstanding. Quicksy is free for anyone who signs up. And I'm not that commenter.