Which social media platforms are a good match for SailfishOS?

answered 2017-08-30 18:04:33 +0200

BtPht
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updated 2017-08-31 15:29:25 +0200

I personally use Movim. I don't need an app since the web version is light enough for my Jolla1. The main advantage is that it works with a Jabber(xmpp) account so it is natively integrated in SFOS for the chat part. And of course this is a FOSS project which aims at providing good privacy.

It's not perfect since the XMPP library on SFOS is very limited but it does the job, and it keeps you out of the Facebook/Google system.

Next problem is to have all your mates adopting it.

answered 2017-08-31 08:20:09 +0200

Stefanix
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updated 2017-08-31 12:56:53 +0200

If you want to interact with "ordenary" people, there is not much of a choice. It is hard to get around WhatsApp. The goal should not be to introduce a new social media platform but to isolate clients of well known social media platforms well enough. One of my concerns is for example that such clients request to access all contacts. I expect SF OS to restrict the access of ALL apps to resources such as location and contacts selectively and log all their activities. For example I would allow only selected contacts to be seen by WhatsApp. Unfortunately SFOS is far away from providing such options.

answered 2017-08-30 08:38:06 +0200

jaacoppi
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http://fromasailfishosnoo...

Diaspora doesn't currently have an API, so it does not have a mobile client for any OS either. The API is work in progress so it might be coming sooner, later or not at all.

answered 2017-09-02 23:05:24 +0200

shellkr
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Tooter (https://github.com/dysk0/harbour-tooter/) is really good and fits exactly with the philosophy... It is both distributed and foss. Jolla would be able to have their own server connecting all users + to the wider fediverse.

Riot.im and Matrix is pretty obviously good picks too.

answered 2018-08-13 19:55:55 +0200

szopin
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updated 2018-08-13 20:32:00 +0200

Maybe twister?
http://twister.net.co/
https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core
twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.

It's pretty interesting as a concept, utilises blockchain for user registration (pgp signatures?) and dht/torrent for content distribution (every user hosts their own torrent of posts). Blockchain should prevent anyone from being censored like YT/twitter or similar would/could do and torrent distribution... well MPAA and similar have tried to tackle this so far no success.

answered 2018-08-13 21:14:45 +0200

Spark
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What about "Delta chat"? An app which is by definition open standard because it uses emails in a chat interface. I wrote about it [here].(https://together.jolla.com/question/186761/native-mail-chat-app-available-for-sailfish-os/).

answered 2017-10-06 23:21:52 +0200

Lutwolf
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updated 2017-10-06 23:30:33 +0200

Fuzzillogic
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If it is more about messenger and less about social media, I'd like to mention Briar (briarproject.org) - decentralized (only device to device, no server inbetween except the ISPs), but you must meet physically to exchange contact data. So: an encrypted messaging service like Threema without a company between two endpoints.

answered 2017-10-06 12:42:31 +0200

szopin
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https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
with a matching maritime theme to boot

answered 2017-10-08 01:59:21 +0200

joschobart
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I use libresignal from jolla store. It seems to be a stable apk, everything works smoothly and hasslefree. The maintainer seems still to be somewhat active, at least there are recent comments in the comment section in the store. I was even able to convince some real friends to join me on signal. Whatsapp and co. are a total no-go for me. No google services involved and libre software, can't complain at all!

answered 2020-01-20 12:22:36 +0200

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Hello Jolla ( CC for the community)

Where is the Whatsapp alternative ?

For me, Sailfish is about privacy issues and breaking internet dominance by Google and Facebook. So I don’t wanna be sent to the Google Store and to Facebook for support.

I've been looking for days, weeks, month to find alternatives ... but not in the Google store and not on the territory of Facebook just because I don't want to be there.

I found KonTalk, Signal, Wire, Linphone, Jitsi, Tox, Movim or Ring? ...But nowhere tI see hat it works well on Sailfish OS While communication is the most important when using your phone….

So...I hope you are gonna offer this support after your five or six year Jolla battle. I hope Sailfisk didn’t change its vision? Or do you now focus on business and government as your most important customers, while we as citizens are increasingly less able to trust IT companies and our government?

Please show that you still have your ideals !! Please choose a simple whatsapp alternative and support this app on your platform, so I can communicate with SailfishOS, IOs en Android users, send Photo's and (small) video's … and that's all !!!

Regards, Ad van Kooten

Quote: "Ahoi Sailors, I'd really love to have a native Kontalk app for Sailfish. I have a few problems with the android version. For example emojis can't get selected anymore because the native keyboard overlays the emoji keyboard of Kontalk. I'd love to donate 100$ if someone is willing to do that. As far as I know this is the only real open source encrypted messenger Threema is closed source Whatsapp closed source Telegram closed source servers Signal closed source servers imho this is the only real solution for encrypted messaging. Happy Sailing Ray "
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