Adopt NeoChat!
This chat client works on both your desktop and phone and will let you communicate over the free and de-centralized and secure Matrix instant messaging platform.
There are two ways of getting features into KDE apps that work better than wishing 😉 :
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contributing to our fundraiser, or donating to the project, or whatever. That is, providing the developers with means to get stuff done, either by buying them time so they can spend it on developing, or hiring help. If you are on this thread it is because you are doing this, or considering doing this, or whatever, so we can assume you already know about this.
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contributing with your know-how. Check out our get involved page, as it describes in detail how you can help with the implementation the things NeoChat needs.
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Libquotient just added cross-signing support, which works in Neochat if it’s build against the new version. I’m not sure what else was missing from E2EE support.
Shouldn’t the mascot be a cat with sunglasses and a lather coat?
Friendly suggestion - it might be a good idea to link to a longer explanation, esp. around the E2EE, here :)
“everything in the current stable specification with the notable exceptions of VoIP, threads and some aspects of End-to-End Encryption are supported”
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social When will Neochat have thread support?
There are two ways of getting features into KDE in a speedy fashion :
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contributing to our fundraiser, or donating to the project, or whatever. That is, providing the developers with means to get stuff done, either by buying them time so they can spend it on developing, or hiring help. If you are on this thread it is because you are doing this, or considering doing this, or whatever, so we can assume you already know about this.
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contributing with your know-how. Check out our get involved page, as it describes in detail how you can help with the implementation the things NeoChat needs.
That didn’t answer the question. Is there an answer to this question, or a way to find the answer? I don’t see any way to see Feature Requests for NeoChat. Only instructions for submitting PRs.
EDIT: Found it in the KDE Bug Tracker - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466606
There are two ways to getting answers, and apparently neither involves the copying and pasting the mod of the community is doing xD
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I can’t get it to run on Android reliably (although I’d love to). YMMV.
Does it do regular SMS? If you say yes, then my next question will be, does it do RCS? Or is that monopolized by Google? Because I’d extremely happy to leave Google’s shitty messenger.
@alextecplayz@techhub.social Technically, you could use a Beeper account (or another homeserver with mautrix-gmessages set up) with NeoChat, but that’s not guaranteed to work by either side.
You’re not getting RCS into any proper messenger.
RCS is garbage that’s wholly hardware-bound (your phone/IMEI/Sim) which is pretty much antithetical to any modern (i.e. Post 1994) design.
Why would I want to use a “protocol” that’s not network-agnostic (just like SMS)?
Protocols like XMPP/Jabber predate RCS by close to 20 years, and already did everything RCS will eventually do, but it did it in 2010. Except be bound to your phone number (and encryption didn’t occur until more recently).
SMS at least was an honest attempt to utilize the empty space in cell management frames. RCS is nothing more than an attempt to keep people using their phone numbers/IMEI as an ID when far better systems already exist. What possible rational can there be to develop a protocol that’s bound to hardware identifiers in the 21st century?
A even better question to ask is why these organizations are abandoning Jabber/XMPP when they were using it for their own chat programs since 2000, and it’s had steady development over that time? (Hint: Jabber/XMPP is an open protocol, doesn’t lock you into any system/app/service. Anyone can use it, any client can communicate with any server over any network. RCS can’t. I currently run 4 different clients using the same accounts, on 5 or 6 devices, and they all stay in sync nearly instantly, with encryption).
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Wow. NeoChat 4.99 €! on Microsoft App Store
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pnxwvnrc29hfor such an amazing product, that’s a steal! 🤩
You can download the exe for free. The price is a donation + offsetting the cost to publish apps to the Microsoft store
@ivandelviejo @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social that is more like a donation
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Is the F-Droid version abandoned? It crashes on startup on my phone.