Menel :xmpp:

Internist in Hannover, Pneumologie. Hobbyadmin, für Schule und Familie. #XMPP fan. Mag Wissenschaft und die Aufklärung. Mag Fantasy und Sci-Fi, komme nur zu nix, da Kinder und Beruf.
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2026-03-08 09:04:03 UTC

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the **sending** client. the one that posted the message that can't be read, must be with the open chat window with the contact that can't get the message.
then the three dot menue, "contact details" --> "encryption" tab and be sure that the omemo key there is enabled and the same as your device has (you see your own in your account settings)
CC: @npub154r…alal

2026-03-08 08:53:20 UTC

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hi, if you see such a message it is always in the sending client where it can be fixed.
The fix is, you tell them your omemo fingerprint and they make sure that they encrypt for that device.
How to do it depends on the sending client. (is the sender Dino or conversations for example)
@npub154r…alal

2025-10-29 06:30:35 UTC

Hi @npub1tx0…esm8
Wenn möglich wäre es toll eine ausführliche Erklärung und die Geschichte zum Krieg im #Sudan zu bekommen. Andere Medien scheinen dazu quasi nichts zu bringen und eure ausführlichen Artikel waren bei anderen ähnlichen Themen da immer führend.
Es scheint so als seien alle anderen "gesättigt" mit Ukraine und Nahost.

2025-10-07 06:33:13 UTC

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> *What makes an XMPP client better than others?*
For me that's stability and features, secondary to the technical background. So electron based or based on the snikket-sdk / borogove or something totally native.. Idk.
Some people are missing a desktop client for Windows that can do Calls. I would think something bloated like electron based that can do that is preferable to nothing (or to the abandoned dino fork).
So go for whatever makes you feels good.

2025-06-23 17:29:20 UTC

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What can I say? It took a minute to setup and just works, new calendar entries are synced in 5 seconds now 😁, very very nice. 👍
Thank you, every one involved!

2025-06-09 10:49:24 UTC

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I think that is a misunderstanding of the contact integration, unless I misunderstood a lot.
If you add a contact, it will save that at the server and sync to your clients.
The contact integration only supplies the avatar pictues if you have an IM field at a phone contact.

2025-06-09 07:43:16 UTC

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A client could. But I don't know any xmpp client doing that, they all store their contact list on the server.
Even if they won't, the server could analyze who talks to who by snikkfing its traffic. (signal can do **that** to btw, even with sealed sender they always know the ips of everyone involved and could correlate by timing)
The benefit of xmpp is not that it produces less metadata, but that it's not all in one basket. Ideally it is in a giant amount of small baskets. That's what snikket realized too and why easy selfhosting is a good thing. So we end up with a bunch of medium sized public servers and a huge amount of small ones.

2025-02-18 22:14:58 UTC

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Monal isn't as stable with its encryption and notification as conversations for Android yet. And lacking reactions.
Generally the ios sector is underfunded/understaffed for xmpp devs. It has a much smaller privacy concerned // foss loving user group and a more hostile developing area for devs.

2025-02-18 06:48:57 UTC

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Hi, I think an issue is still the state of the ios clients. Otherwise everything is fine from my point of view.
I don't think many use the contact cards to add addresses there, one often shares addresses in other ways what I experience.
Android seems to have removed the ability to set the chat field from within android, I have all my xmpp contacts still there , because I set them in an earlier version, and they are still shown.
I testes it with nextcloud and dav5x just now, from nextcloud you can still. Add xmpp addresses.
Just add a chat address, the field what type of chat is meaningless for Android so there set what you like.
In the **actual** address field you then enter xmpp:you@example.com
And it will show in Android.
So as long as you use the xmpp: protocol identifier in the address, it works. (sure, only a nerd feature, who manages contacts from nextcloud, but fun) 🙂

2025-02-10 15:36:22 UTC

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At least we have hashtags and relay services for small servers, that makes it better doesn't it?
Oh and https://fedi-search.com/ still up