#messaging
Even these are ineffective. (Too many big words, not enough... uumph.) At least someone is trying.
You Want the Democrats to Be More Aggressive? WE ARE THE DEMOCRATS! Check These Memes Out!
[As in, "Check these out and despair." Is there any way we can help these people out?]
How to Turn Off Read Receipts on iMessage, Google Messages, and More | Gizmodo
We’ve come a long way since the early days of SMS: 160 characters per message and not a sticker in sight. The chat apps of today come packed with functionality and features, including read receipts, so that you know when your sent messages have been seen—and so your contacts know when you’ve seen their messages too. If you’d rather not be that transparent, here’s how to turn those nasty little tattletales off.
#technology #tech #internet #messaging
https://gizmodo.com/how-turn-off-read-receipts-imessage-google-chat-whatsap-1848797712
New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other, smaller platforms – NOT using proprietary, but hopefully interoperable standards instead
It’s a great idea as WhatsApp, iMessage, and others are creating more and more fragmentation and walled gardens for users who have to install 10+ apps to message their friends elsewhere. But this why open (not insecure) interoperable standards exist in the first place.
Rather than letting each provider now go create their own API, this is the opportunity to ensure open standards exist for each technology so that everyone can reach others. If RCS is to be the open standard for messaging, then let iMessage and WhatsApp adopt that. That way a message from one app can reach users on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and more. Each app will still have its own UI and own bells and whistles that differentiate it from the others. As users, it will mean we are no longer locked into an app that prevents us from leaving.
Such data interchange standards do already exist such as XMPP, XML, RCS, and others. XMPP for example can enable encryption between the end-points so that need not be the issue here. Maybe this will also force the bigger players to help improve these interoperability standards.
It is quite clear that Apple, Facebook, and other big players had no intention of opening up interoperability with their competitors, and we can see already how this harmed consumers on both sides. It is therefore only likely that some legislation will achieve what BigTech has failed to do on their own. Clearly the few consumers that exercised their freedoms to leave platforms, had no real effect on the those running the platforms, so market forces were also not achieving any beneficial change for users (the lock-in effect for mainstream users was just too strong).
#technology #BigTech #interoperability #messaging #EU
#Blog, ##bigtech, ##eu, ##interoperability, ##messaging, ##technology
Jami and Bridgefy are two cross-platform (inc iOS) Peer-to-Peer messaging clients that bypass censorship
Whilst Briar is an excellent P2P messaging client (requiring no Internet) it still does not yet run on iOS. So to be able to connect to everyone, you want to consider clients which do connect as widely as possible. As with all P2P clients, your friends all need to also have the same app installed. Usually these clients require zero personal information (not even a phone number) to be used.
Bridgefy is designed to work on local Bluetooth (max about 100m) during natural disasters, a protest, at large events, at schools, etc. It will create a mesh network, so one or more other peers can help transmit messages further. See https://bridgefy.me/.
Jami also is a P2P client, but it uses encrypted TCP to communicate. It can be installed on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android TV. It will connect over the Internet to any friend, with no servers required (there is no website that can be blocked or intercept messages). It does not work across Bluetooth, but it can work on a local area network (without Internet) if everyone is on the same network, e.g. a Wi-Fi network. So yes, typically something like Jami will work perfectly in Russia or Ukraine across an Internet where servers are being censored or blocked. See https://jami.net/.
These are pure messaging apps though, so if you want P2P blogging you’d want to consider RetroShare, Secure Scuttlebutt, Aether or other similar service that works without any websites or servers at all.
#technology #messaging #privacy #censorship #P2P
#Blog, ##censorship, ##messaging, ##p2p, ##privacy, ##technology
Android Messages will send videos as Google Photos links for the benefit of RCS-less iPhones, rolling out iMessage compatible reactions
It is ironic (tragic?) that in 2022, the communication between modern RCS Messages and iMessage will be the ancient unencrypted SMS system. But that’s what we have to live with for now, so it is good to see Google at least trying to improve compatibility of the experience from the Android side.
As one commentator says, it would be interesting if WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal could figure out how to incorporate RCS from the iPhone side, especially. The problem is though that RCS is a carrier level enabled service.
See https://9to5google.com/2022/03/10/google-messages-new-features/
#technology #mobile #messaging #iMessage #Messages
#Blog, ##mobile, ##rcs, ##technology, #imessage, #messages
I wonder about the messaging here. Is it an effective advertisement, or a warning? Both, maybe
Funny! Or not.
But definitely reflecting something about our AI-driven tech. (And/or selves).
And attention-grabbing. A Super Bowl advertisement preview,. 2 days before The Big Game), an annual airing of (US) football and the most creative, big-budget, and eye catching of advertisements which some think are a main reason to watch the game.
Amazon’s Big Game Commercial: Mind Reader
#Alexa #AI #advertising #messaging #superbowl #adverts #cyberpsychology
Tek Fog: An #App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate #Hate, Manipulate Trends
source: https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/1.html
The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by #online operatives to #hijack major #social #media and encrypted #messaging platforms and amplify right-wing #propaganda to a domestic audience.
#internet #cybercrime #news #tekfog #politics #problem #software #troll
Telegram is warned app ‘nurtures subculture deifying terrorists’ | Apps | The Guardian
MPs, leaders of faith communities, and groups involved in countering hate have sent a letter to Telegram urging it to take action as it emerged as an “app of choice” for racists and violent extremists.
A report this week found that the messaging app had emerged as a central hub for several conspiracy movements espousing antisemitic tropes and memes, including QAnon, as well as others on the extreme right promoting violence.
Endlich ein Client für mehrere Accounts. 😀
♲ FediFollows - 2021-08-23 15:00:30 GMT
NeoChat is a free open source @matrix messaging app for Linux desktop and mobile. You can follow at:
➡️ @neochat
It's made by @kde and the official NeoChat website is at https://apps.kde.org/neochat
#NeoChat #Matrix #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Messenger #IM #InstantMessenger #Messaging
Facebook Must Sell Instagram, US Govt Argues | PetaPixel
The US Federal Trade Commission has renewed its antitrust legal case against Facebook, arguing that the social media giant is an illegal monopoly and that it should be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
If Facebook were to sell these companies to someone that has no link whatsoever with Facebook, I’d be back on Instagram straight away, and might even be tempted onto WhatsApp.
#technology #tech #Facebook #photography #Instagram #messaging #WhatsApp
https://petapixel.com/2021/08/20/facebook-must-sell-instagram-us-govt-argues/
WhatsApp Adds Snapchat-Like, View Once, Disappearing Photos
Facebook's WhatsApp chat application is adding a feature that was initially popularized by Snapchat: view once, disappearing photos and videos. The app is rolling out support for the feature this week.
Facebook says that even though photos and videos have only grown in importance for most people, it doesn't believe that everything shared needs to have a permanent digital record. In addition to the need for some level of privacy inherent in some photos, Facebook also says that not every photo taken of every event needs to take up space on a smartphone's camera roll.
To that end, Facebook is adding new "View Once" photos and videos to WhatsApp which will disappear from the chat once they have been opened, which the company says will give users more control over their privacy. View Once photos will be clearly marked with a new "one-time" icon.
After the photo or video has been viewed, the message will appear as "opened" to, as Facebook explains it, avoid any confusion about what was happening in the chat at the time.
Any photo or video sent in as "view once" will not be saved in the recipient's Photos or Gallery, and once the photo has been viewed it won't be viewable again. That media also cannot be forwarded, saved, starred, or shared, and a sender can only see if a recipient has opened a view one photo or video if they have read receipts turned on. If a recipient doesn't open the photo or video within two weeks of it being sent, WhatApp automatically expires it from the chat and it will not be viewable.
As was the case with Snapchat, WhatsApp's view once photos aren't protected against screenshotting or screen recording the media before it disappears, and senders won't be notified if someone takes a screenshot or screen recording.
Facebook says that as is the case with all messages sent on WhatsApp, View Once media is protected by end-to-end encryption so even WhatsApp can't see them. That said, Facebook has a sordid history when it comes to privacy that dates back as far as 2006. Most recently, Facebook chose not to notify users if they were affected by the massive data breach that affected over half a billion people.
#mobile #news #software #disappearingphotos #facebook #messaging #photomessaging #photosharing #snapchat #viewonce #whatsapp
Looks like a #pod which makes progress.
The big error-mountain was a stupid test I did.
Three blocked pods..
#diaspora #graph #messaging
A very brief history of every Google messaging app - What a decade and a half of confusing services can tell us about the future
Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced more than a dozen messaging services spanning text, voice, and video calling. This week, the company’s efforts culminated in the general availability of Google Chat, a combination of Slack / Discord-style rooms with more traditional messaging.
It’s the sort of announcement that might have been expected to bring some consistency to the company’s muddled messenger messaging, but — as is traditional for Google in this area — there’s plenty of confusion to go around.
It got so bad for me that I have abandoned using Google's chat apps a while ago. Personally, I think it's way better to have a known brand name for your service, and you keep iterating and improving updates to that. The way Google (and even Microsoft) has approached messengers and chat apps has just been all over the place, and they don't seem to stick long term with anything. When they do, in the case of Microsoft, look what has happened with Skype. I have close to zero interest in anything new that Google or Microsoft launches. If you want innovation and focus, just think of start-ups like Zoom, WhatsApp (original), Instagram (original), Skype (original P2P version), Android (original).
See A very brief history of every Google messaging app
#technology #google #messaging
A look back at Google’s messaging mess.
Hi diaspora
(fr bellow)
I was wondering about #secure #messaging app. Is #Signal still a good choice in 2019 (regarding its tight bound to Google)? I was looking to other competitors, like #Wire, which seems more reliable : https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
Does someone has some day to day experience with Wire? Is it good enough?
Thanks!
Coucou diaspora…
je me posais la question (comme fréquemment) du choix de #messagerie #sécurisée. Le temps passe et je voulais savoir si en 2019 Signal était toujours si intéressant que ça (je pense au lien étroit avec Google), vis-à-vis de la concurrence et Wire en particulier ?
Sur le papier Wire me semble plus fiable https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
Après qu’en est-il de son utilisation quotidienne ? Quelqu’un a des retours ?
Merci beaucoup :)
In the past I lost touch to this network, but I’m disappointed by people that are too to use privacy tools, e.g. cryptocat (instead of FB chat) or people that are sometimes unable to erase a whitespace out of a weblink that was placed there intentionally to prevent premature opening of a one-time note by a provider, FB or some other MITM :|
I think it’s difficult to get used to Diaspora if you only use social networks interacting with real-life acquintances. Or what do you think?
#privacy #facebook #diaspora #communication #messaging