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Pidgin mentions (16)

• How can I forward Facebook messenger messages to email?

  I can't think of any way. There is a Facebook plugin for Pidgin, and you can get at your chats that way with a more versatile cross-platform messenger, if you are more normally on other chat services. https://pidgin.im/ https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki If you want web-based clients, try a multi-app client such as Ferdium, RamBox or Station. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Why so rude?

  As I mentioned earlier, this scenario happens to me all the time. This is precisely why I refuse to discuss why we don't use Git or GitHub for Pidgin. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging

  I did a find before posting my comment and found yours. >Cool I like Wordpress. But they bought a fancy Pidgin clone for 50mil...? https://pidgin.im/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• YOUR OPSEC SUCKS | UHQ SCHIZOID OPSEC GUIDE | BECOME BULLETPROOF

  XMPP XMPP stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol and is used for communications for message-oriented middleware based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Many more people are starting to use this as a main way of communication using programs such as Pidgin to accomplish this. Pidgin is an open-source multi-platform IM client which most people will recommend for XMPP. The main reason is... Source: about 1 year ago

• Messaging is no longer Android’s mess, it’s an iPhone problem: Talking RCS with Hiroshi Lockheimer

  Pidgin is still a powerful messenger client for desktop once you get all the plugins needed for your particular use. Source: about 1 year ago

SimpleX chat mentions (60)

• Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

  Https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/ Of these, https://simplex.chat/ seems the most promising, thanks to a level of decentralization. - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

• What are your favorite End-to-End encrypted tools for online privacy?

  For messaging I'm currently on Olvid (E2E with physical key exchange) but since it still use their servers, I'm currently testing SimpleX where I can host my own servers. Source: 6 months ago

• Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

  Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• SMS Security and Privacy Gaps

  I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised. [0] https://simplex.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• U.K. Abandons, for Now, Legislation That Would Have Banned End-to-End Encryption

  If you have a mobile phone number, the domestic intelligence agency knows exactly where you are at all times and any LEO (without a warrant) can also find you. In addition, there have been numerous CCC presentations showing how insecure the global (excluding US) and (separately) US carriers are guilty of promiscuous metadata trafficking ($$) and insecure SS7 setups. As a consequence, for low $, you can go to any... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago