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A new look for Snikket on Android (snikket.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] stratself@lemdro.id 8 points 5 months ago

It's basically XMPP with a clear packaging, from server to client

[–] tuxec@infosec.pub 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been using it for more than a year to communicate with my family and a very small group of friends. The video and audio call features are good and I've replaced phone calls and Signal/WhatsApp with it. Because it's XMPP, there are many clients you can use, not just the Snikket app. Overall, I recommend it because of the End2End Encryption features and self-hostable (if that's a term)

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Similar here.

Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.

[–] dimjim@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

XMPP is what Matrix was meant to be, but 15 years too early