Adium VS Berty

Is Beeper like the once super-messaging app Adium[1]? Do Beeper not use Apple's iCloud App-Password? Can one not just download and use Beeper[2] without creating an account? 1. https://adium.im 2. https://www.beeper.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app "Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it. But almost the WHOLE. THING. Is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before... Source: almost 2 years ago

Jabber is now called XMPP. XMPP is a technology, actually used by many other services such as Facebook chat. (or at least it has been at one point, don't know what the current status is.) XMPP continues to also work with Adium, a multi-protocol chat app that's completely customizable (visuals + sounds). Source: almost 2 years ago

I really miss Adium (https://adium.im) which was based on Pidgin's libpurple. Adium had such a great user experience. It was built with native widgets and also incorporated chat themes that were implemented using WebKit's rendering (https://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=search&cat_id=5&sort=downloads). It was fast and memory friendly given that it was a native app and the themes were just small templates offering... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

> there was also some Duck app for macOS? You are thinking of Adium (https://adium.im). I believe it was a port of pidgin/libpurple to cocoa/aqua (or whatever the macOS gui framework was back then). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

I says it in the home page: Open Source. ... Read it, fork it, improve it. https://berty.tech/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Berty: Privacy-first messaging app\ (34 comments). Source: over 1 year ago

Check out https://berty.tech for direct off network communications. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Hello, I work at Berty.tech as a product manager (An NGO that builds a Web3 Messenger on top of IPFS) and I'm looking to do some user interviews to get to meet the community and understand what features we should be building. I would love to meet some of you and talk about these topics! Don't hesitate to react if you are interested! Source: over 1 year ago

Signal alternatives that are open source and cross-platform (at least Android and iOS compatibility): - [Jami](https://jami.net/) - [Berty](https://berty.tech/) - [Cwtch](https://cwtch.im/) - [SimpleX Chat](https://simplex.chat/) - [Status](https://status.im/). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago