What is Snikket?
Snikket is a messaging app with a focus on privacy and ease of use.
To support your privacy, Snikket is fundamentally different to other messaging apps that you may be familiar with.
Most popular messaging apps are developed by large businesses who provide the service for free in exchange for gathering data about you and showing you ads. In addition, all your messages travel through internet servers operated by them.
Instead of a single large corporation controlling everything, Snikket is decentralized. It is built on a network of smaller independent providers. Everybody is able to choose a Snikket provider that they can trust and yet still communicate with anyone else in the network.
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I never heard of it. Is it’s decentralised setup it’s unique feature that makes it different from Signal? Who uses this messenger, with whom for what?
Edit: This is not meant to sound harsh, I’m curious
It’s basically XMPP with a clear packaging, from server to client
I haven’t really either, just from browsing their website it seems like a federated service you can either host yourself or join someone else’s, and then use their app (or a fork) to invite the people you specifically want to talk to.
I don’t know much about XMPP, but that is what it’s based on.
XMPP is what Matrix was meant to be, but 15 years too early
This is what I needed to see! Tops my amazing day!
This is a much appreciated overhaul
tbh i prefer the older design. seems like this is based on conversations.im?
In part. The whole idea behind snikket is to bundle together a bunch of pre-existing mainstream and well behaved XMPP clients and server under one consistent and polished package, so that it just works out of the box for the less savvy users and admins who then don’t have to think too much about configuration and peers onboarding. So, yes, on Android, you will find a rebranded version of the Conversations client, prosody on the server, siskin on iOS, and IIRC they are working on a SDK for the desktop.
