niyumard
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Comment · 3 days ago
This is one of the merits of federation, one that Signal doesn't have.
While the Internet is cut off in authoritarian regimes, the intranet (note the difference) rarely is. The regimes have to preserve the internal network in the country because otherwise financial infra like banking will be down too. So a VPS or a computer connected to a public IP inside the country is all you need.
Comment · 3 days ago
Yes, the chatmail servers (https://chatmail.at) come with a coturn server that keeps the video calls P2P if possible.
Comment · 4 days ago
During Iran's Internet blackout, I set up a chatmail server on an interanet VPS, installed Delta Chat's client (https://delta.chat) on every family member's phone, and they are using it even now after the Internet is back.
I have tried Matrix, XMPP (Conversations), Signal and even some Nostr clients but Delta Chat has by far the best UX and reliability. It has groups, channels and private messages, stickers and built-in video calls. My only gripe is that it doesn't have video messages or screen share like Telegram yet.
If you want to try it out you're always welcome to message me.
Comment · 11 months ago
> If we can make PGP/GPG email more accessible I wonder if that could translate to instant messaging?
You might be amazed...
Comment · 2 years ago
Actually Logseq comes with built-in flash cards. That's why I love it.
https://unofficial-logseq-docs.gitbook.io/unofficial-logseq-...
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, I for one host my own Jitsi instance because of Internet censorship. The censorship is very bad here so major social media like WhatsApp and Telegram etc are blocked. And for cases such as Skype and Google Meet which aren't blocked the connection is sometimes throttled (not to mention that sometimes they just cut the Internet off) so that leaves one option: a self-hosted Jitsi instance on an Iranian data center.
Fun fact: Even on an Iranian data center, I had to limit the video quality on my own server to 360p because other qualities don't work great either.