Prav: a community-owned chat app
summary
Prav is a fork of Conversations/Quicksy that uses XMPP with OMEMO and OTR support, shipped as a private beta with test accounts and source on Git hosting; signup is simplified to match WhatsApp’s ease. Goal is a user-funded cooperative society (legal rule: 50 members from at least two states), currently 50 members in Kerala and 17 in Maharashtra. Project claims stable user voting, hosted servers, and active development but needs more members and testers to scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:03Interoperability loss in chat
- 4:45Why XMPP adoption failed
- 6:51Prav improves XMPP usability
- 8:39Prav’s cooperative model
- 11:53Prav’s free software tools
- 13:43Call for volunteers
- 14:29Q&A
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