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Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 21:04

How To Install Telegram Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install Telegram Desktop -- the fast and famous messenger of the free software community (GNU GPL) -- on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". With Telegram, you can communicate online with your family and friends with group chats, channels, video call and file sharing features among many other excellent ones. Also, you will be able to make desktop shortcuts for quick access on both your left panel Dash and wallpaper area. Now let's do it and happy messaging!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 22:28

List of FOSS Modern Instant Messenger Applications

This is a list of FOSS instant messenger applications. It's aimed for people who want to quickly use and know more about Telegram, Signal and many others as free/libre open source software alternatives to Skype or WhatsApp proprietary messengers. We hope this helps you and your friends choose one. Happy communicating!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 23:10

Element and Movim Messengers Comparison Made Simple

This is my simple overview of two greatest group chat messengers from decentralization family, Element of Matrix and Movim of XMPP, with easy point of view everyone can try themselves. This is a discussion of usability from an end user without talking about technology stuffs like security or protocol. Let's chat!

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 16:25

Chat Bubbles on Element and Several Matrix Apps

This simple comparison wants to help everyone adopt alternative messaging technology, Matrix, with suitable user interface to them. We call Matrix Apps to instant messengers like Element, Fluffy, Nheko, Schildi and Spectral as they are created based upon the said technology. We will start by setting up criteria first that includes chat bubbles, then going through these messengers one by one, and you will see their pictures here along with a little comments from me. I hope you can pick up the messenger with UI you love the most from here.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 20, 2021 at 14:01

Delta Chat, Overview and Installation

The email messenger, Delta Chat, is a Germany communication app which everyone can use and just works friends and family even without them using the same application. This article overviews it and give installation guide for Ubuntu and Android users. Let's chat!

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, June 7, 2021 at 21:58

How To Join Libera Chat IRC | with Pictures and Step by Step

This tutorial explains how one can join online chat at Libera Chat IRC. This includes how to join alternatively with an IRC client program, like Hexchat, and also register a nickname or username so nobody else can use it. This tutorial can also be viewed as a practical beginner's guide to IRC. Happy chatting!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:16

Internet Communication without Phone Number or Email

You can video call without phone, number, nor email. Here, if you can video call, of course you can do group chat, voice, upload files, and share screen too. Thanks to Element and several other choices, now this is possible. It is very useful for everybody in teams or groups today especially when work from home becomes a norm. What to prepare and how to do it? This article explains it briefly special for you and your friends.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, February 12, 2021 at 20:19

Movim | Basic Review & Beginner's Guide

Movim is a free, beautiful looking, complete communication solution which is like a combination of Facebook, WhatsApp and Blogger. With Movim you can connect to friends, make posts and blog news, create groups, plus voice & video calls -- aside from its Xmpp network. See features it offers and you can expect it can be used for many purposes including online meetings and classrooms. This simple guide exists to help you start Movim. Let's go!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 15:07

What is Your Choice After Switching from WhatsApp?

The year 2021 starts with a big moment of #DeleteWhatsApp. It is when millions of people leave this proprietary software and look for better alternatives. At January 20th, I made a poll in Mastodon titled What is your choice after switching from WhatsApp? which I never thought would attract so many people. I put three choices in that poll Telegram - Signal - Element and people responded with some other alternatives such as XMPP - Threema - Jami and more. Now I present you this article as an introduction to alternative messengers mentioned in the discussion with short explanations so you can try them or refer to good sources. Enjoy sharing once again!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 23:59

Session Messenger on Ubuntu Desktop and Android Phone

Try Session! This new Australia based messenger is like a combination of Signal security and Tor anonymity and BitCoin network plus requiring no phone number. It's available for both your desktop and phone platforms. Interesting, right? So now this tutorial will show you how to have Session in both devices Ubuntu desktop and Android phone.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 13:25

Install GNU Jami on Ubuntu and Trisquel

GNU Jami is the new name of GNU Ring (ring.cx if you remember), the decentralized instant messaging from The GNU Project. Do you know, Jami is one among several FSF's High Priority Projects under the section Real-time Voice & Video Conferencing free software? And upon the name change, Jami got a lot of improvements including distros supports including Trisquel. This article explains how to install GNU Jami on Ubuntu and Trisquel for beginners. Happy conferencing!

(GNU Jami running on Ubuntu 19.04)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 13:26

Intro to Riot/Matrix

Please welcome Riot/Matrix the new internet communication system. It's a software/service similar to Telegram and WhatsApp, but without phone number registration and with wonderful connection to other services feature. The Riot software we use to communicate is available gratis for web browser, GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. The Matrix service behind the scene is the real communication protocol which is secure and universal (open, decentralized, federated, bridged). Riot/Matrix offers you end-to-end encryption as well as anonymity, federated servers, with private chats as well as group chats, and support to bots creation, and ability to read and write other networks namely Twitter, Discord, Skype, Gitter, IRC, and email and more. The naming I use here "Riot/Matrix" is an analogue to "GNU/Linux" where Riot is the software and Matrix is the service to make everything easier to understand. I will try to introduce you Riot/Matrix in a friendly manner with as little as possible saying technical things. Okay, let's dive into Riot/Matrix!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 22:47

Signal Desktop Messenger for Ubuntu 18.04, from Open Whisper Systems

Signal is a free software messenger for mobile (Android and iOS) and desktop (Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS). In many privacy-oriented web pages you could find, Signal is recognized as a good alternative to WhatsApp. It is recommended by PrivacyTools.io, MyShadow.org, Sven Taylor's RestorePrivacy.com (last checked 30 June 2018). What's more awesome is it provides desktop application for Ubuntu GNU/Linux. This tutorial explains how to install (and also uninstall) Signal Desktop on Ubuntu.