What's Left for Private Messaging? [video]

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69 points·DyslexicAtheist··7 comments

> This Talk was translated into multiple languages. The files available for download contain all languages as separate audio-tracks. Most desktop video players allow you to choose between them.

Off topic, but wow that's really impressive. How long has CCC been doing that?

It's nice that they do it, but note that adding multiple audio streams to one video is quite easy to do. (Translating the talk in the first place, not so much.)

Several years with help of volunteers. There's also a bunch of people writing subtitles for the recorded talks; live streams are automatically subtitles nowadays. Some years ago we would even do manual subtitles for live talks.

You can join the subtitling efforts here: https://c3subtitles.de/

I think there's a lot of good decentralized or E2E private messaging apps, but some of the overlooked features needed going forward are

* chat history

* open source (Server too!!!)

* destructive messages

I think qTox provides most of these. Still struggling to get my friend group to use it though.

OMEMO on XMPP?

>destructive messages

Most clients can have history switched off. There is no way to make that a choice for the message sender.

I don't see the point of the server being open source unless you're running your own instance. Otherwise it's a trust honeypot.

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