Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.

Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.

Movim is a federated Discord alternative, though not part of the fediverse/Activitypub, as it is based on XMPP instead. It’s still a bit clunky in the UX department, but is currently the most full featured federated alternative.

Also @HubertManne@piefed.social

CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don’t think it has reviews.

I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.

Do be aware that I don’t think that blogs can be encrypted or made private, I think they’re viewable to any movim user (I haven’t experimented with that feature).

Also, it is possible to disable the chat encryption on Movim, so if you’re going to have any non-tech savvy people using it who may accidentally disable it without knowing, and that could be dangerous, then you may need to opt for a platform where it’s enabled by default instead, like Delta chat (though it does not have any blog-like features, multi-room channels, nor any voice call ability, unlike Movim.

Movim allows you to host a blog as well as private and encrypted chat channels like Matrix, that might be a good solution.

No. Use Nostr for that, since it’s already overrun by crypto-bros over there.

If you’d rather avoid registering, you could try Movim instead, which just needs a username and password to use, no email required during sign-up.

It’s open-source and GPL licensed. There are no restrictions if you self-host, the subscription only applies if you use an account on the main server, which pays for development and hosting costs of the main server.

Ah, my bad. Thanks for letting me know! Edited my other comment to reflect that.

From what I understand, Piefed instances will have better support for Mastodon posts, and I believe it supports subscribing to Peertube channels already (something that Lemmy still doesn’t support…) Edit: It does support Peertube!

This article is confirming the extreme merit of Citizen Controlled Media, which has only become more and more important as an essential form of prefiguration as time goes on, since these alternative citizen controlled sources become virtually the only way to communicate truth to others that is otherwise censored in state or corporate controlled media.

Related to Movim; it just received Discord-like spaces a couple days ago! So it’s now a pretty effective decentralized Discord that can do group audio/video calls, screen share, and even has blogging built in.

Highly recommend anyone thinking about ditching Discord to give it a shot. It doesn’t even require an email to use, just a username and password :)

Especially with the Movim client :)

No prob ^^

Lemmyverse.net is a very useful site to find communities that may not have federated to your instance yet (at least 1 user on your instance must be subscribed to it for it to begin federating). Especially useful for smaller instances.

I can’t really find anywhere that clarifies what version of OMEMO that Movim is currently using, but if I had to guess it would be 0.3.0.

However, I want to point out that the creator of that linked blog actually removed a response in the comments from an OMEMO developer which clarified some things (you can it read here), which personally I think was rather odd/bad faith of them to do.

According to that response, there’s nothing really wrong with OMEMO 0.3.0, as the OMEMO developer considers it a stable standard that clients can safely implement, and the newer versions basically being public beta releases toward a stable ‘OMEMO 2’ standard that can eventually replace 0.3.0.

I also think the blog author’s argument should be put into perspective; from most security expert’s POV (including the blog author linked), any app that allows encryption to be disabled is considered flawed or insecure compared to the gold standard of always on E2EE. This would rule out Matrix, XMPP, and certainly any other Discord replacement like Fluxer or Stoat (which offer no encryption). Ultimately only Signal, Deltachat or similar app would be the only options a security expert could recommend, as those experts are prioritizing security above all, regardless of use-case, needs, or practical threat level.

Signal is centralized and requires a phone number (deal-breaker for me), where as Deltachat is decentralized and does not. Deltachat is a fantastic messenger, but it is only a good replacement for Signal, not Discord. Nor are any of the other ‘encrypted by default with no option to disable’ messengers.

If we contrast Movim with optional OMEMO against Discord (which is not only entirely unencrypted, but also actively working with authorities and spying on you); Movim is a monumental improvement while still (eventually) providing Discord-like features. No other possible Discord replacement comes close besides Matrix (which has its own problems, more than XMPP I would say).

I would suggest that for the average user, XMPP with OMEMO 0.3.0 is pretty darn good. It’ll certainly provide very good privacy for encrypted DMs to your friends or groups where it’s enabled, and no nosy server owner or relay server will be able to read or decrypt them.

For people where security is absolutely paramount, and they believe they may be specifically targeted by a state actor, then they should probably stick with an E2EE always-enabled platform like Deltachat.

But for most, who likely isn’t even using a VPN, or Tor, or may even still be using Windows or a non-grapheneOS phone? XMPP with OMEMO 0.3.0 is going to more than suffice.

And as time goes on, that new ‘OMEMO 2’ will become stable, and the clients can then migrate to that. But it’s already the best privacy respecting Discord alternative we’ve got (IMO), and it’ll likely only get better :)

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Only if you need to screenshare with audio! And only because that feature was just implemented (Firefox uses a different mechanism to screenshare with audio, and likely requires its own implementation). Movim works fine otherwise in Firefox or Librewolf.

And remember, Discord itself is just an Electron app, which is literally just a stripped down Chromium browser without the browser controls, but is also itself spyware. Running Movim in a de-googled chromium is a huge step up, and running it in Firefox even more so. I think it’s important not to make perfect be the enemy of good, in this case :)

While there are forks of conversations (Cheogram & Monocles), Movim is not a fork, AFAIK. Did you read it was somewhere?