Daniel Gultsch

Project lead on https://Conversations.im & https://Ltt.rs · Council Chair & Editor, #XMPP Standards Foundation · 2.9W/kg · Flat white socialist · Defying Gravity · European Republic

Website: https://gultsch.de
Source Code: https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/
Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/iNPUTmice

Last Notes

2025-12-20 09:15:03 UTC

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I consider this a failure on our part but I don’t really know what to do about it. Most arguments against #XMPP don’t hold if you’re building from scratch anyway:
• #Conversations_im looks very outdated: OK, but you are developing your own clients anyway.
• XMPP doesn’t have an SDK: Neither does your #ActivityPub or email stack
• OMEMO is insecure and I would prefer #MLS: Yes, let’s work on that together and you’ll still benefit from XMPP’s 100+ solved IM problems.

2025-12-20 09:03:47 UTC

As a community, we often ask ourselves how to attract more users to #XMPP. Yet the real tragedy is that people would rather build something entirely new (loosely based on email or #ActivityPub) than consider XMPP. Need end-to-end encryption by default? If compatibility with existing XMPP clients is a secondary concern, you can implement it in your own solution while still benefiting from our two decades of experience in instant messaging.

2025-10-04 06:52:35 UTC

We are not going to write open letters on how we are heroically going to withdraw from Europe. We will stay here continuing to operate as usual. We are infrastructure.
#Conversations_im #XMPP

2025-03-27 21:06:26 UTC

Is there any #ActivityPub / #Mastodon URI scheme used in the wild that would allow me to open an ActivityPub account directly in my Android app?
I've seen 'acct' and 'web+ap' mentioned but none seem to be implemented.
The goal is that given a text of "Here is my Mastodon profile acct:daniel@gultsch.social" #Conversations_im can link that directly into #Tusky. (Just like mailto and xmpp URIs open my E-Mail or IM app respectively)
Have @npub14kx…urew or @npub18wv…53pp considered that? If not why not?

2025-01-12 14:50:56 UTC

Gerade ein sehr angenehmes Interview von Tilo Jung mit Jan van Aken zu Ende gehört.
Bei dem, was Jan van Aken über Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Verkehrspolitik zu sagen hat, gibt es von mir ja viel Zustimmung.
Ich würde mir wünschen, @npub1shz…mgz4 hätte mehr Bewusstsein dafür, dass, wenn ein Autokrat in ein wehrloses Europa einfällt, wir die ganze schöne Sozialpolitik auch nicht mehr umsetzen können.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls0tBHgy_xI
#BTW25

2024-11-21 18:03:40 UTC

More thoughts on the STUN server fallback question:
· This is something other #XMPP Clients just do quietly without having a big debate about it¹
· I don't think users should configure this. Anyone who knows what a STUN server is will likely switch to a server offering one.
· Treat it like channel search. On first use (call, file transfer), ask once: Use our fallback STUN server? Yes/No.
¹: https://github.com/dino/dino/blob/v0.4.4/plugins/ice/src/plugin.vala#L49-L52

2024-08-22 06:49:31 UTC

Thanks to Thilo, developer of @npub1xxs…xwre, Quicksy is now available on iOS!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/id6538727270
Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery
Conversations for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends
Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
https://quicksy.im/#get-listed
You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im