Off-the-Record Messaging VS Conduit Chat Server

Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 10 months ago

To understand more about it read here: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca. Source: over 1 year ago

A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them. Also used... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Why so pesimisstic. In a sane world (and probably in the world where they want to say "just use WhatsApp, we're better!") they'll say "This user is using an unencrypted app. [Paragraph about how all your nudes and contents of bank account will be stolen]. Are you sure you want to send them a message?". In a better world, something like https://otr.cypherpunks.ca could be implemented, where the user has control of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

OTR is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

If you're talking about Element switching its contributions to Synapse from Apache to AGPL, the rationale is that folks who want to commercialise Synapse will either have to a) opensource their changes, b) pay for an AGPL exception from Element, c) use a different server (e.g. Apache-licensed Conduit from https://conduit.rs) or d) write their own server. This hardly feels like suffocating competition. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Reminder - https://conduit.rs/ Rust implementation of the matrix server stack. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Many who have causally read about Matrix and looked into running a homeserver have run across the reference implementation Synapse, which is (IMO only, pls no flame) a bloated python monstrosity. This turned me off for years. A second-gen (?) alternative written in Go called Dendrite is much lighter weight, but is lacking in some features last I looked. A couple of years ago, I found Conduit (https://conduit.rs/)... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

In Conduit (https://conduit.rs) there is no default config path, in order to start Conduit, you need to specify the CONDUIT_CONFIG environment variable, which is the path to your config. This will typically be done in a systemd service. This has multiple benefits:. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Until now, Rust was only present in the Matrix ecosystem thanks to contributions by third-parties in the form of Conduit and Fractal. So this is pretty rad. Amongst these two, Conduit is the most important project imo. It's a Matrix home server, written from scratch in Rust. Source: about 1 year ago