Leaving video/audio message, like available in whatsapp, also supported. The point even can be not connected to a Jami account, acting just like a strange symbol on the road written by anonymous.įile transfer is also a strong side of Jami, supporting up to 4K video and high resolution images, without blurring them to the fog. If one server is down and several are online, communication is still possible.Īnother cool feature is "Rendezvous point", a special identifier you can share with other people and robots, so they can reach you and connect. Peer-to-peer architecture is a huge plus for platform stability. Also, Jami will not ask you for a phone number - huge win for privacy. But Jami-SIP cross-calls aren't supported and it's kinda sadly lack of consistency. Surprisingly, Jami supports SIP and was even based on SFLphone, a SIP client. Main desktop application is a Qt app, also there's empty Electron repository, also available the Qt client, all licensed under GPLv3.Ĭritical video issue by now is Multistream support in conferences (multiple active videos), highly actual for big conference calls 'cause fast speaker changes will slow down the communication. Jami available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android. Enterprise package with LDAP, Active Directory, fast support and user permissions control.Secure messaging with synchronizing history.Interesting, Jami has a "GNU package" note on their website, last time heard about GNU in focus of the Stallman-Epstein scandal and they now back with the software project, which is great and step forward. So, there's naturally a demand for a good Open Source Messenger and Jami, Matrix, Signal, Wire, Threema and more trying to fulfill it with radically different success. ![]() ![]() Old communication protocols like IRC and XMPP are still alive, but slowly loosing popularity and their feature set has issues with chat history, sync with multiple devices and more. Why to push mobile application so hard? Well, the answer is easy: to collect much more user data, an app is doing it much better than a website. Forced integration with Facebook will definitely don't make Whatsapp more private nor secure. ![]() Whatsapp supports web version only like mobile companion or "extension", login isn't allowed if mobile app is down. Whatsapp, most popular messenger on Earth with more than two billions users Apple iMessage, very popular in the USA and an army of another proprietary messengers heavily relying on smartphones and phone numbers. 3 min read Photo by Franck / Unsplash Privacy matters
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