A bonus to self-hosting is now you’ll have an XMPP server you & your chatmates & org can use for decentralized, federated chat—may as well add a new virtualhost & ditch that proprietary chat option.

I have a server and it's decentralized? Isn't that a contradiction of terms? Wake me up when my teammates and I can message each other from our mobile devices without the involvement of any other computer...

>Wake me up when my teammates and I can message each other from our mobile devices without the involvement of any other computer...

Routers are computers. You'll be waiting a long time.

You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff.

https://tox.chat/

https://jami.net/

I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text.

I would not recommend Tox anymore, as it is unmaintained - https://lists.tox.chat/pipermail/support/2023-August/000340....

It was a decent piece of tech, though!

I think that you're refering to qTox(which is currebtly not being maintained). Tox, the protocol, continues development as usual.

Really? I guess you guys are active elsewhere and not on the mailing lists, because those are as dead as a very dead thing. :)

Well, I don't know if anyone else responds to the mailing lists anymore to be honest. You can still get in touch through IRC though. We are on libera currently(and dogfooding tox groupchats). #tox for user related questions and #toktok for development.

Edit: Also, development is happening on github: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore