Quoting: HadBabitsTook me a bit to realize Diaspora* literally has an asterisk in it's name; I kept looking for a footnote in your posts XD

Hah, yeah :) It hints to dandelion that's used for its mascot (as a symbol of decentralization).

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Right, some pods have it, not all. My point is, it's a feature that diaspora* supports, but it's up to the podmin to set up XMPP server and pair it with diaspora*.

Once you have an XMPP server though you can set up any chats you want really. You can already do that on various existing ones, no need to wait for diaspora* to deliver it.

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diaspora* already has XMPP support for local chat. "Groups" functionality can be emulated by using tags. Something like explicit groups could be useful though.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: lucifertdarkTelegram isn't secure, the people who want to control our entire lives already have their claws deep into that piece of software & can eavesdrop any time they like, avoid it like the plague.

Ive seen people say that, but no one can ever back it up.

It was explained multiple times already. Telegram server is insecure and not FOSS, there is no end to end encryption. I.e. if you want Big Brother to be on the other end, Telegram is an option ;)

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Where did you get the 40k number? It's more than 600k (I already gave the link above on statistics: https://the-federation.info [External Link] ). Also, what's "mandatory"? If you care about FOSS and not supporting those who use your information for profit, then use diaspora*, not FB or G+. For those who don't care that's of course irrelevant. In my understand social network should be a communication tool, not a tool to harvest people's profiles. Therefore it has to be decentralized to avoid such pitfalls.

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Example of how it looks for me (opened #linux tag):



I'm sure it can be improved, and there are several efforts for it. But it's very usable.

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What exactly do you think is terrible about it? Also, what's the version that your pod is using?

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Its interface changed quite a lot during the recent years. How long ago did you check it?

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By the way, diaspora* has quite a lot of Linux users, because it's probably most feature rich FOSS social network, and decentralized one with that.

See http://the-federation.info [External Link]

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There are also Web clients for IRC.

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