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Movim - An open-source, federated and encrypted Text Chat & Video Call (w/ screenshare!) platform made in France since 2010 (movim.eu)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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It's quite an impressive little app. Under the hood, it's an advanced XMPP client that has:

  • Excellent text chats with file upload support, including solid optional encryption (OMEMO, based on Signal's encryption but modified to be compatible with federation)
  • Group voice/video calls with screensharing (must use a chromium based browser to screenshare an app's audio at the moment)
  • A neat integrated blogging feature for communities & individuals
  • a fun built-in paint program to draw stuff into the chat
  • Full working and proven federation thanks to the XMPP back-end, which allows it to scale up reliably and easily self-host (XMPP is very lightweight).
  • Uses the AGPL license, ensuring that cropos won't be able to take it over. It'll be community-owned forever.

In message-mode, it looks fairly similar to Discord:

If you're curious if it'd work as a Discord replacement, it's still missing Discord-like servers with collections of rooms in them, as well as drop-in voice rooms. However, the developer is actively working on implementing those features, with the server w/rooms part likely to be implemented within the next few weeks. They already posted what it looks like in the development branch:

To stay updated on its progress, the !xmpp@slrpnk.net community pretty reliably posts news about it.

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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's technically possible that native Movim apps could be built in the future, but it'd probably be a bit too much for the dev to tackle without additional help.

The other clients can interact with each other without any special actions, similar to how Lemmy and Piefed users can. And you can use 1 XMPP account and log into any client, and it will retain your contacts and message history across them all. However:

  • A Conversations user wouldn't be able to join any group audio/video calls with Movim/Dino users, since it can only do 1-on-1 calls at the moment. It could still call individual Movim/Dino users with video.
  • Dino is fully compatible with Movim's group audio/video calls, but AFAIK it cannot initiate screensharing yet.

If a Conversations user wanted to message a user currently using Movim, they would just need to add their username as a contact (Something@YourXMPPhost[.]com, just like Lemmy works), and the Movim user would get a notification just like they would if it'd come from a Movim user, and they can begin chatting or initiate a 1-on-1 call.