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We are attending #IETF126 in Vienna. The #XMPP community is represented at the Hackathon and we are hosting a side meeting on Thursday at 15:00 (Park Suite 4) to introduce the idea of bringing XMPP 2.0 back to the IETF.

Google is now buying access to source code repositories to train their LLMs. This puts the value of the code they previously stole from the open-source community into a whole new perspective.

Google Partnership Opportunity:

Hello Daniel,
We are reaching out on behalf of the Google Partnerships team with an
invitation for a select group of Google Play app developers to join a
confidential content offer pilot.
We'd like to offer a unique opportunity to generate additional revenue
from your apps. You've put a lot of hard work into building your app and
growing its user base. Whether it’s the active production codebase
powering your current app, or archives of prototypes and side projects no
longer in use, that code could have untapped value.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for high-quality, real-world codebases to help improve
Google's developer tools and products. Here is what this program offers
you:

- Additional revenue opportunities: Get paid for delivering the
code powering your apps, as well as your archived projects.

- Be an early adopter: As a pilot partner, you will shape how
Google partners with the developer community moving forward.

+ Drive impact: We've found real-world code to be useful to our
product and service development across a wide variety of use
cases, from understanding complex logic to developing coding
evals and benchmarks. Your production tested code can directly
help.

+ Retain control: This is non-exclusive. You keep 100% of your IP,
your app remains entirely yours, and you retain the right to
monetize your data anywhere else.

You can learn more about Google's approach to partnerships in our blog
post.

Auf der #FrOSCon in St. Augustin darf ich am 15. August noch einmal #UnifiedPush vorstellen. Das ist vermutlich das letzte Mal, dass ich diesen Vortrag in dieser Form halte. https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/dd149428-7db9-44b8-8fa2-d023a4940bb9/ Info-Stände zu #UnifiedPush und […]

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I’m committed to keeping the quicksy.im XMPP server running for at least 24 months. XMPP servers are extremely efficient. I’m serving the ~1500 concurrent users from a toaster, so the cost of running the server itself was never an issue. Users are however advised to eventually migrate to the […]

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People don’t understand that this SMS pumping fraud is organized crime on a mafia level. First, they attack your service to deliberately run up SMS fees (splitting the costs among themselves), and then they turn around and try to extort protection money by selling you a subscription to a service […]

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#Quicksy registrations are permanently closed. The project was viable for a long time only because it required minimal effort. However, fighting industrial-scale SMS pumping fraud has become unsustainable, both financially and in terms of workload. The XMPP server will remain online for the […]

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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 2mo ago

Ich war im „Captain, it's Wednesday“-Podcast von GNU/Linux.ch zu Gast und durfte das #UnifiedPush-Projekt vorstellen. Hat mich mega gefreut. Vielen Dank für die Einladung. Wer schon immer mal etwas über Push-Benachrichtigungen ohne Google lernen wollte, dem meine Vorträge aber zu viel sind, kann […]

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I’m going to be at #FOSSY in Vancouver in August to talk about #UnifiedPush! https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/372/ There is also a full 2-day track dedicated to #XMPP.

FOSSY 2026 | Presentation: UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source

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What #Conversations_im did was prove that the technology works. When #Matrix reinvented the wheel as an eventually consistent graph database with a JSON API, they didn't do it because #XMPP didn't work. They did it because their investors were seeking control over the entire stack.

Daniel Gultsch@daniel.gultsch.social · 3mo ago

RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/116578297080678405 It took Google 9 days to review this release. These insane review times seem to be the new normal. Anyway it’s finally live on Google Play. Enjoy the new search bar and the improved attachment flow. #XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im

#Conversations_im 2.20.0 has been tagged with some significant UI work. • The main screen now features prominent access to search and can suggest contacts to you for quick navigation • The media attachment flow has been reworked and is now closer to the input […] [Original post on gultsch.social]

#Conversations_im is currently in the Top 50 most download apps on @fdroidorg. In the messaging category it ranks fairly close to #Element X and has almost 3x the downloads of #DeltaChat. Just to give you a perspective on loudness on social media vs reality […]

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At this point, the Google Play app review process has become a security liability. I have had an app update for #Conversations_im in the review queue since April 28th. Previously, app updates have been rejected for stupid, hallucinated reasons; this time, we are just being ignored entirely. The […]

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A quick reminder that nonprofit simply means an organization has found a creative way to avoid taxes. By itself, it doesn’t tell you anything about the ethics of said organization. #Signal #DigitalIndependenceDay

It's Digital Independence Day again and #Conversations_im, the best Jabber/XMPP client for Android, is currently available for free on Google Play. Enjoy true independence with independent messaging. No central server. No venture capital. No 'non profits' with centralized decision-making […]

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@gajim/116433575527221800 The #XMPP community operates on the principle that good ideas will prevail. Showing a warning when it’s nighttime for a contact has had three independent implementations in a little over a month. We don’t need CEOs. We don’t need kings […]

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Ich habe am Rande der Chemnitzer Linux Tage dem Radio T aus Chemnitz (@radiot) ein Interview über #XMPP und die XMPP Standards Foundation gegeben. https://gultsch.video/w/dxT7TYDLuBRNLwTtWKrxR1

Radio T Chemnitz: Interviews von den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2026

Interview von Radio T (@radiot@sachsen-medien.social) mit Daniel Gultsch über XMPP und die XMPP Standards Foundation. Aufgenommen auf den Chmenitzer Linux Tagen 2026. Die ganze Sendung, inklusive e...

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