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How do you count your visits? I don't even see whether mine has visits or not lol. I am not even sure if counting people would count as "tracking", so I am not sure whether it's acceptable in my books. The only feedback I got were a couple of emails.

EngineerGaming ,
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And my biggest problem is that the self-checkouts I see in stores around me do not accept cash (even though earlier there WERE cash-accepting models - in the chain now merged with another). So even if there are faster lines to the self-checkout, that doesn't help me much.

EngineerGaming ,
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Not just Matrix. The one major XMPP clients use now, OMEMO, does that too.

EngineerGaming ,
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Signal is not the best choice, it's just a somewhat aceptable middle ground. I prefer something that doesn't require a phone number and something you can self-host, like XMPP.

EngineerGaming ,
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I don't see a big difference, the hardest thing by itself is convincing someone to install one more program or app. Also Conversations does not suck.

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When it comes to clients being not fully compatible - I understand where there might be a problem, but I personally never encountered it. Conversations covers Android, and Gajim is on both Windows and Linux. In my experience, they work just fine with each other, and Android+Windows+Linux covers the majority.

I do use Signal with a few people who refused to use XMPP, but I'd disagree they have good clients for every platform. Because the desktop one essentially doesn't work without a smartphone. Registering in something like Waydroid doesn't allow binding a desktop client because it wants to scan a QR code, and Signal-Cli just didn't work with binding a regular client. So I am stuck using the inconvenient Signal-cli, because the only alternative I saw so far would be using it on Waydroid, which is even less convenient. Not to mention that the client itself is on Electron.

EngineerGaming ,
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The major clients now do have OMEMO. Yea, I agree it's flawed but that's so far it's the one I settled on. Do you know other, more refined selfhostable solutions? I am now looking for development there but doubt I'd get few people that I already got there to switch again.

EngineerGaming ,
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Which mini-pc would you recommend? RPis are not sold here officially and thus very expensive.

EngineerGaming ,
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What about an Android VM then? I use it for Steam, and it's far more convenient. Not to mention doesn't require spending money on a smartphone.

EngineerGaming ,
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Not just "by default". It also cannot encrypt group chats and - most importantly - does not allow this on desktop clients.

EngineerGaming ,
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I don't. Having a photo of my face posted online is off-limits already, but it's on the other level of dangerous when it's in a place full of horny men. ESPECIALLY when you don't even look like an adult, it creates a whole other level of creepy.
No thanks.

EngineerGaming ,
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Exactly. What's annoying are oblivious people, who are the majority in every single generation.

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