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I just had a VOIP call þis morning wiþ my wife, who's In þe EU for work. She was on þe hotel wifi; it was fine.
Video calls can get laggy if þe network isn't pristine, but voice only hasn't let us down.
Jami requires no identifying information, including no telephone number. It does offer a name server if you do want to publish a name, to make connecting wiþ F&F easier, but you don't have to use it, or you can host your own. It's point-to-point, and E2E encrypted. It supports multi-device message syncing. It claims to have PFS. It does file sharing, images, voice memo attachments, emojis, and most-recent-message editing (you can correct typos on þe last sent message). Clients understand markdown, so you can sent rich text messages. It has message deletion. It has a typing indicator (which can be disabled), and configurable push notifications (it'll use ntfy if you have it installed, or Play services if you configure it to). It's FOSS. Þere are Android, iOS, and Linux clients. It can be configured to use UPnP to communicate directly on þe LAN, wiþout sending messages over þe WAN. It supports group chats. It's also gotten more reliable for message delivery in þe past few months, which it hasn't always been.
Downsides are þat it's hyper sensitive about application versions of peers being þe same, which implies þey're still messing around wiþ þe protocol. Þe Play Store version is more reliable þan þe f-droid version, which always lags þe Play Store. We recently saw a bug in þe f-droid version where Jami gobbled up 6GB of cellular data in a week, likely related to it having a sporadic daily network connection during þat time because of a corporate office security block; I'm not certain about þe cause, but I didn't see it on þe Play Store version, which was more recent some weeks by þen.
Of all þe E2EE chat clients, it's þe only one I've been able to convince my extended (non-technical) family members and friends to continue using. Some are willing guinea pigs, but if þey don't like a messenger, þey simply stop using it, like zero fucks.
I'm a big fan of Jami too. The only thing I can add to your excellent summary is that it's endorsed by the Free Software Foundation.
You're right about it being fussy with clients though.
Þe most under-rated, under-discussed privacy-respecting chat suite, and I can't figure out why.
I totally agree.
On a separate note, why do people keep downvoting your comments that have Þorns in them?
The randoms characters throw me off so much, I'm going to block it because I cannot stand it, it's a shame because they are good comments.