2016
Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)
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A colorful image showing 8 global switch suggestions presented in three columns. Upper left is the fediverse logo with text Join the fediverse #globalswitchday. In total we see 16 platform logo's in their respected brand color and underneath each logo the name of the platform. All switch combinations have an arrow in the middle pointing to the right (from to). In the left column: X to Mastodon, Facebook to friendica. In the middle column WhatsApp to Signal, Instagram to Pixelfed and YouTube to PeerTube. In the right column: Reddit to Lemmy, Facebook Messenger to Signal and TikTok to loops.video.
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[–] 97 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Yeah. I love Signal but it doesn't belong in that list. Dansup (creator of loops and pixelfed) is apparently working on "Sup" that will be a decentralized alternative to whatsapp.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    To me this person sounds like they have too many big projects at once. I wish them success tho

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah.. I'm bit afraid of "kbin Ernest Effect" (not sure what a proper term is) where personal issues pile up and the sole head developer just disappears.

    Haven't followed dansup much but from what I understand he is much more open to pull requests and listening to the community, but time will tell. Right now I appreciate and love his effort, giving, and the impact on fediverse he is brining.

    The kickstarter was a good idea.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    XMPP is an established federated messaging app with encryption.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    There isn't much information about "Sup", but if I had to guess it could be that dansup is making sup app with XMPP(rotocol) as the messaging protocol.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Originally it was supposed to be ActivityPub based, but recently they posted something about it being for XMPP, Matrix and IRC as well 🤷‍♂️ Maybe they decided to fork Pidgin 😂

    IMHO Sup. isn't going to happen. They will have their hands more than full with Pixelfed's new popularity and maybe Loops.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh! didn't know that, I thought activitypub can't be used for secure messaging. Lol really hope its XMPP!

    Yeah I didn't take it that seriously when it was announced right now. Just hope pixelfed stays afloat amidst the user flood and hope he can publish loops as open source soon!

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