Daniel Gultsch / is on Nostr

Project lead on https://Conversations.im and https://Ltt.rs

„Offensichtlich als Programmierer tätig“

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Last Notes

2024-05-24 08:24:26

We are finally going to upgrade our #ejabberd running on conversations.im, tomorrow, Saturday May 25th.
Unfortunately we won’t be able to do this without some down times throughout the day.
You can visit https://status.conversations.im/ for a simple up/down check or follow this thread for the occasional status update / progress report.

2024-05-06 13:16:40

#Conversations_im has just surpassed 250,000 installs on Google Play. 🥳
The official, publicly visible, install badges are handed out for 100k and 500k. Growth has been very linear over the last ten years so stay tuned for the next big milestone in 2034! 😜
https://gultsch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/393/844/318/846/991/original/00fff80e34550f18.png

2024-02-15 06:48:35

To celebrate Conversations being back on the Play Store and to deny Google their 15% cut I made the app free for the next ~48 hours. 😜
If you are new here: Check out #XMPP. It's federated, provider and vendor independent instant messaging. It’s great!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations
Or get it from #fdroid - That version even has address book integration and public channel discovery! 😂

2024-02-14 17:10:10

Let’s not forget that #Conversations_im was a paid app in Google Play. I made Google tens of thousands of Dollars in revenue over the years. You would think that this somehow entitled me to speak to a human for half an hour but you'd be wrong.

2024-02-13 11:03:13

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@npub1htm…5ul7 I guess people are registering but then not sticking around. Stagnating user count doesn’t necessarily means it's the same group users over the years. Plus re-registrations of users uninstalling+installing again.

2024-02-13 10:48:43

Here is some important context you need to understand Quicksy:
· It’s not successful at all. The user count has stagnated at just under 1,500 for years.
· It’s very expensive to run. While Quicksy doesn’t have that many users it has a good amount of registrations. Sending SMS is really expensive. There are months in which I’m paying ~100 Euro for server cost + SMS. I receive a few donations that reference Quicksy alongside Conversations but nothing close to 100 Euro / month.

2023-12-28 10:29:22

A couple of Android developers and I are organizing an Android App Developer Meetup at Day 3 (tomorrow) of #37C3.
„Are you developing an Open Source App for Android? Is your App distributed over #fdroid? Are you using reproducible builds yet? Do you have an opinion on Java 21 vs Kotlin? Do you have a favorite restriction Google introduced in a recent Android version?
If the answer is yes to any of those question the Android Open Source App Developer Meetup is for you!“
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/android-open-source-app-developer-meetup/

2023-12-24 08:03:23

As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.
This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.
However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations
#37C3 #XMPP

2023-12-20 09:53:06

Let’s give Meta the benefit of the doubt for one second and assume they want to embrace and extend but not extinguish #ActivityPub. Where do they go for the extend part? XMPP has the XMPP Standards Foundation that gives a diverse set of stakeholders a framework to collaborate on new extensions.
From standing on the sidelines for a year it looks a lot like #Mastodon is pretty much just doing their own thing.

2023-12-16 11:26:00

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@npub188w…eqpn to be clear I’m not saying that Conversations’ method is more efficient. It's just that @npub1qml…mdus speaks of their own method as 'destroying the user’s battery' while I know for a fact the implementation in Conversations is not.
My assumption is rather that they vastly exaggerate the battery impact of their own implementation to make GCM seem like something they absolutely have to use.
Signals battery impact might be completely acceptable and Conversations’ only very marginally better

2023-12-14 16:51:17

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@npub1eec…xp4f indeed. Once you have a reasonable implementation the largest factor is quality of network (less wifi vs mobile but more just general quality)
That's for idle connections. The amount of pushes/messages obviously plays a large role too. But that's true for Google Push too.
The screenshot above was taken in what I would call 'average' conditions. I've been traveling all day so connection quality is 'mixed'.

2023-11-11 12:52:04

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@npub1ga6…yad5 where are you finding the information that personal accounts only require the Country to be made public?

2023-11-10 21:36:41

Why does nobody who works for Google understand that forcing indie app developers to publish their home address is a really fucking stupid idea?
This will literally get people killed.
Are they doing this on purpose?

2023-11-06 19:24:54

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@npub1m29…khl9 Federation rarely works (for example I never see replies to something that has been boosted)
Mastodon closed access to the streaming API which means that service like fedi.buzz have a much harder time.

2023-11-06 19:04:46

If federation is an afterthought at best and in some cases something you are actively trying to prevent (I’m looking at you #Mastodon 4.2.0) why is it called The Fediverse?
#ActivityPub

2023-10-25 07:56:23

Automattic, the company that owns wordpress.com just bought, what can best be described as a Pidgin.im knockoff, for $50 million.
Silicon Valley innovation in a nutshell.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging