adium
awesome-pidgin-plugins
adium | awesome-pidgin-plugins | |
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4 | 3 | |
285 | 10 | |
4.2% | - | |
0.0 | 1.8 | |
over 2 years ago | over 3 years ago | |
Objective-C | ||
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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adium
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New company "new" projects
I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app "Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it. But almost the WHOLE. THING. is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before Apple introduced native notifications) within it. And I know that doing so would be very, very difficult.
- Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS
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Pidgin: Pidgin, the Universal Chat Client
Looks like work is being done in a branch: https://github.com/adium/adium/commits/adium-1.5.11.asher.10...
awesome-pidgin-plugins
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WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
> I have no strength for yet another switch
Pidgin with a shitton of plugins. If the only problem is the migration, that still works as a single client, albeit with drawbacks and hiccups. (I collected them at https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins and yes, it'll need to be compiled, even Pidgin itself for some of the solutions. There's nothing user friendly about it, sadly.)
On the other hand... the only system I never had to migrate off is IRC. The funny bit of IRC is that it's not private in terms of security at all, but because it's anonymus, it still feels like it.
And so I keep thinking about needs when it comes to privacy: what do I really need in the context of internet communication? Anonymity, privacy, or both?
I don't have a definitive answer.
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Pidgin: Pidgin, the Universal Chat Client
I have a github repo to collect plugins that makes Pidgin a bit more up to date on all levels. Pull requests welcome:
https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins
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Over 85000 federating XMPP servers
I'm one of them, and I love it. Desktop clients are lagging in support compared to Conversations[^1] on Android, but even Pidgin can be flogged into an acceptable state[^2] - no video or audio though, I couldn't get that working, unlike with Prosody and Conversations[^3].
The thing with XMPP vs Matrix is weight: and XMPP server is featherweight compared to Matrix due to their different nature, so I honestly believe that XMPP still has a future.
(And maybe one day, Pidgin 3 will see the light[^4])
[^1]: https://conversations.im/
[^2]: https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins
[^3]: https://gist.github.com/petermolnar/10d815eae0b7cbda2b1e5948...
[^4]: https://pidgin.im/development/building/3.0.0/
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