chooj VS sydent

If you're willing to dive deep into self-hosting, the open source chat protocol Matrix.org has support for an in-development iMessage bridge. Once you get it to work, there's a Matrix.org client on KaiOS devices called Chooj (sideloading guide) made by Farooq that you can use to access the chat.

I personally recommend going with a Matrix client and building a bridge to your Signal account.

My end goal is to sideload a matrix chat app on to my Nokia 6300 4G US phone. Root would be nice but I'm not sure it can be done.

We do have a third-party client for Matrix, the protocol technology which Beeper is based on. Check it out here, and you can sideload this app by following this guide.

Some guy started one here, but needs more support to keep it going.

Hmm, the Matrix.org client Chooj currently works, but only with basic functions, like one-to-one texting and calling, group/channel texting, experimental notifications and so on. It's just that the dev hasn't got time to work more on this - see the support chat at #chooj:mozilla.org. https://github.com/farooqkz/chooj

Though I am not aware of any developments on an xmpp client, farooqkz is working on a matrix client which could then be bridged over to xmpp

GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects.

Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use.

For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in), try Matrix instead: https://matrix.org/

I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance.

[0] https://matrix.org

Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... slowly improving.

I'm trying to change my account provider from "matrix.org" to whatever Element One needs, and for the life of me I just don't understand what values I have to put where to be able to log in. I tried `element.io`, which takes me to sso.element.io but this doesn't seem like the right thing (no credentials work as I expect.