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For the US and Canada, there is JMP.chat which can be used to 2FA over SMS without a SIM. Uses standard XMPP so can be used from a computer or phone while on WiFi. There are other …

You might want to check out jmp.chat ... it does SMS via XMPP and can place phone calls via SIP all on a fully free-software stack that you could modify and use independently if de…

I use Evolution every day with the evolution-ews plugin for accessing an Exchange server. It's still a bit clunky as it always was, and has some issues when switching between wired…

Even better is Gadgetbridge (available on F-droid): https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge It's not as slick as the official app, but requires much less in the way of permi…

I think both have a place in the world (as another comment pointed out, similar to NNTP vs SMTP). Does it really need to be an "us vs them" eat each other's lunch kind of a deal to…

I still use XMPP to connect to google talk and converse with people who are using hangouts. I use "Conversations" on Android, which works well and also supports OMEMO (the XMPP ver…

It would be good if the library was marked as Libre so that LibreJS would easily recognize it: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/manual/html_node/Free-L...

Jitsi (jitsi.org) does video calling over Jabber and others. Though it's not web based like imo.im, you also don't have to give your access credentials to a third party.

Is source code available? I couldn't find a link. Without the source, claims of privacy and security are very suspect.

You appear to be speaking from a purely consumer perspective. That's being only the client in a client/server relationship, and feeling a need for protection from the supplier. I'm…

That's a fair point. The difference is in where I think the trust should be placed. I would love to be able to pay for goods on Amazon with bitcoin, because I trust Amazon. Right n…

The trust issue he encountered he mis-attributed to bitcoin when in fact the issue was with paypal and credit cards. Bitcoin is like cash. There's no "reversal" of charges. Once so…