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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs
(www.androidauthority.com)
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XMPP + OMEMO
also matrix
That too, but it is more resource-hungry to host (my biggest problem is that I have very limited storage and haven't quite figured out how to disable media downloads from all rooms). But yea, indeed still an option.
In worst case, symlink image folder to /dev/null.
I think the conduite server should be very lightweight, secure and easy to set up. But it's leaking video
Yea, Synapse was out of the question for my low-power VPS, so I was going to try either this one or Dendrite. Just that last time I looked, I did not resolve the storage concerns. Ideally, I would like to not save any media and text that comes from federated servers.
Needs to be something like family is going to use you see. Which is why I liked what Signal had since it doubled as SMS.
Messaging layer security exists now, just a matter of implementing it for xmpp
Great example since Google essentially hijacked XMPP and took it into a fully-intentional nosedive.