XSF Discussion - 2019-11-16

  1. mathieui

    I just learnt that the purism libre 5 SMS client does both SMS and XMPP

  2. j.r

    mathieui: you mean chatty?

  3. mathieui

    idk

  4. mathieui

    maybe

  5. j.r

    It does xmpp yes... but with the pidgin library... I wanted to try it but I can't compile it on my machine...

  6. jonas’

    yeah, it uses libpurple

  7. jonas’

    of all things.

  8. j.r

    jonas’: did you test it?

  9. Zash

    Their marketing seems to mostly talk about their Matrix client tho

  10. Ge0rG

    The responsible developer was at the Düsseldorf sprint a while ago. But IIRC they shifted focus or abandoned the project in other ways shortly after that.

  11. j.r

    > Their marketing seems to mostly talk about their Matrix client tho But the matrix client is just a rebrand of riot

  12. Ge0rG

    There is much community value in having a primary client for an ecosystem, that's easy to rebrand