Unpopular opinion: There is not the One #Messenger To Rule Them All. It depends on individual #chat requirements.
Extremely easy to onboard and use, but only for Android and iOS: #Quicksy or #Prav.
For Joan & John Average: #Conversations, #Dino, or #Monal.
For team chat: #Gajim or #Prose.
For people with higher security necessities: #Conversations or #Dino with self-hosted server and/or use over #TOR and/or multiple (burner) accounts.
Tbc. Of course, there are many other valid options.
#Prav stall at #MumbaiFOSS Happy to see @prav presence at various #FreeSoftware events around India.
Thanks to @fossunited for organizing these events and giving us a chance to present Prav.
Does your messaging app ask you which features you want? Or what to include in the privacy policy?
At #Prav, members have equal voting rights, giving you a voice in decision-making. Sounds too good to be true?
If you're around, join us in Noida where @disaster2life will be shedding light on how Prav is your own project.
Event details
fossunited.org/dashboard/cfp/a…
Thanks to @fossunited for organizing the event.
@ravi @prav @disaster2life @contrapunctus @fossunited Thanks everyone who volunteered!
For people who could not volunteer for these two, many events are coming up.
You can also support these volunteers by sponsoring their expenses. https://prav.app/donate/event-bursaries/ #prav #donate #xmpp
Meet us tomorrow to get to know about @prav and people behind the project.
I'll be in #Noida, where @disaster2life will give a talk on #Prav.
Event details: https://fossunited.org/c/delhi/april2025
On the other side of the country, @contrapunctus will be on a Prav stall in #Mumbai
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Event details: https://fossunited.org/c/mumbai/2025
Delhi or Mumbai? It's your choice
Thanks to @fossunited
Would anyone like to represent #Prav in FOSS Meetup #Hyderabad fossunited.org/c/hyderabad/202… om the 26th of April? Usually in such meetups, we spread awareness about the ideas behind Prav (ome of cooperative, privacy, federation, freedom etc.) and distribute stickers and flyers.
Help us spread the word!
@ravi, @contrapunctus, @untrusem, Vijay represented #Prav at #LucknowFOSS. The audience was receptive towards the ideas behind Prav and asked questions, showing their interest.
Thanks to @fossunited
@prav wants to reach out to people directly through presence at various events. We talk about #privacy, #Federation / #xmpp and #FreeSoftware. We can do this sustainably at scale only if we are able to support volunteers going to these events by covering their travel, accommodation and food expenses. Or we have a large pool of volunteers so we have someone nearby to any event.
So please donate or volunteer if you can at
https://prav.app/donate/event-bursaries/
We have been at many events already. #prav
We need your help to clarify some sections of #prav bye-laws. We have received feedback that some sections are unclear or confusing. You can see specific feedback in https://codeberg.org/prav/bye-laws/issues
You only need good English language skills to help in many of those issues.
You can see the current #byelaws at
https://prav.app/blog/finalising-our-bye-laws/
You can also review and share your feedback as issues. Please let us know if you are unable to understand some sections.
@untrusem gave a talk this morning about #Prav at IIIT #Lucknow in #LucknowFOSS.
Photo credits: Anuvrat.
@erebion at #Prav we are looking for donations https://opencollective.com/pravapp We go to conferences in many cities across India and promote #xmpp so we'd like to support people traveling to these events and also print flyers, stickers etc.
Also we run an #xmpp service that is integrated into the app to provide a #Signal / #WhatsApp like onboarding experience (you only need to enter a phone number). So we need to pay for hosting and sms charges too.
Meet us at IIIT #Lucknow this Saturday (12th of April) at #LucknowFOSS. @untrusem will be giving a talk on #Prav and we will have a stall for one-to-one interactions.
Looking forward to see you there! Cc @fossunited.
@vort3 @ravi Basically you only need to tell your contacts 'Install #Prav', they will know the rest of the drill from their #WhatsApp experience to start chatting with you. Now try the same with #Conversations. They will hestate to pay to install Conversations. Either you have to convince them it is worth the money or explain about #Fdroid. Try this experiment with 10 of your friends after you setup Prav account. Please share your experience.
@stefan @bjoern uh in terms of onboarding people there's #Prav and #Quicksy which are just "download it from the store and enter your phone number" which is especially helpful when the other person is far away or doesn't have time/patience to figure things out 
Both send people to specific servers, so you can't do the "pick *this* server" thing, but at least they've got one foot into the network. (For self-hosters, #Snikket is kinda similar with closed invites to your own server) 
We have a table at @kde conference for distributing #Prav stickers and flyers. Thanks to @bshah . Feel free to come to our table and take stickers and flyers to raise awareness.
#XMPP #cki2025 #FreeSoftware #KDE #KDEIndia #opensource
Cc @kde
