Welcome in the Kontalk community.
Great to see a new member 
They have not to leave there walled gardens. They only have to open the gardendoor by installing Kontalk as a additionally messenger. Thatās what I did with my friends.
I only use Kontalk. My friends uses WhatsApp AND Kontalk to communicate also to me
Same for me! 
@paulkreuzer we donāt have to do group chats, I just wanted to get you into the beta tester boat for the group chat feature (we are only talking non-important stuff anyway for testing purposes). Would be great to have a one-on-one chat, too! 
PS: Welcome to our little Fairphoners colony!
Hello, Iām Jay and Iām from Canada. I found out about Kontalk through https://www.privacytools.io/ and privacy means a great deal to me so that is why I am so interested in the project. Itās a far better alternative to Signal.
Hi Jay,
thank you for the pointer to https://www.privacytools.io/
On there german page I could not find Kontalk.
But I just offered a Pullrequest
Oh really, no problem. Iām glad I could help then.
From Tilburg, (The Netherlands) I am Lidwien. My mobile is a Fairphone 2 on Fairphone Open 17.06.4
I try to stay away from Gāe and use F-Droid and of course Kontalk.
Welcome @Lidwien. I hope you have a great time in our forum and all the support you need.
Hi everybody, I am Gabriele from Italy.
I heard about Kontalk time ago and I got in touch with @daniele_athome.
I am an IT professional and what catched my attention is the fact that at the core of Kontalk there is Tigase.
Kudos to the team for the brilliant work with Kontalk, so far!
Hello. Iām from Romania. Iāam not a programmer.
Iām Ron, the 2nd Canadian to post to this thread.
I have a passion for computer and online privacy and security that predates the public internet. I have never convinced anyone other than my son to use secure communications, but that doesnāt stop me from trying.
Always a pleasure to learn more about newcomers. Welcome aboard everyone, looking forward to catching you around our forum.
You might be interested in giving your opinion in this poll:
Iām Jose from Spain and happy to be part of this community. Great work with this app, congrats to all the team. Loving GNU/Linux, free software and security/privacy matters. Cheers!.
Hi. Iām Luis, a lawyer from Brazil, and I have been searching for a good replacement for wh*pp that would be easy to use and had zero learning curve as prerequisite. Iāve tried several different communicators and finally found kontalk which, in addition, is xmpp compatible - as Iāll be using librem5 in the following months itās a key feature. As well as neofacsism grows (due to cambridge analytica, fb and wh**app) we have to get closer where ethics is present and I feel ethics here, because itās FOSS. Free software has ethics in its DNA. My missing feature is encryption with non kontalk users (xmpp users).
Hi @luisfsr
OMEMO is on the roadmap an will (hopfully) coming up very soon.
So this will fix the missing encryption to non Kontalk clients.
Glad to know that @webratte! 
Wait, Librem5? Isnāt that the thing thatās, among other things, specifically designed for Riot.im? Or is that onr too complicated?
Hello @OffifialMITX!
Itās a phone with privacy features which runs Linux - crowdfunded and being procuced by https://puri.sm/
Matrix/Riot.im are working together and will bring chatty app (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/ ), that will connect to matrix using a libpurple plugin. As it seems, chatty has xmpp, SMS, matrix and telegram plugins at this moment.
Hola.
Soy un promotor de Kontalk, pero no se nada de desarrollar. Por estos lugares (Colombia) estamos muy motivados a utilizar kontalk, muy a pesar de algunas limitantes con algunas caracterĆsticas con respecto a whasap y otras, Pero tambiĆ©n tenemos claro que es un proyecto jovĆ©n de software libre, que lentamente va ir avanzando. Por ejemplo, el avance con la aplicaciĆ³n de escritorio es y fue muy importante para la comunidad. Muchas gracias por ello.
Le pregunto, ĀæserĆ” posible agregar la utilidad (caracterĆstica) de crear grupos en la aplicaciĆ³n de escritorio? ese serĆa un avance importante para la aplicaciĆ³n.
Muchas gracias por su aporte a kontalk. Deseando que esten muy bien y que todos se cuiden mucho en esta Ć©poca.
Hallo
Ich bin ein Fƶrderer von Kontalk, aber ich weiĆ nichts, was ich entwickeln kƶnnte. FĆ¼r diese Orte (Kolumbien) sind wir sehr motiviert, Kontalk zu verwenden, trotz einiger EinschrƤnkungen mit einigen Merkmalen in Bezug auf Whasap und anderen, aber wir sind auch klar, dass es sich um ein junges freies Softwareprojekt handelt, das sich langsam weiterentwickelt. Zum Beispiel ist und war der Fortschritt mit der Desktop-Anwendung fĆ¼r die Community sehr wichtig. Vielen Dank dafĆ¼r.
Ich frage Sie, ob es mƶglich ist, das Dienstprogramm (Feature) zum Erstellen von Gruppen in der Desktop-Anwendung hinzuzufĆ¼gen. Das wƤre ein wichtiger Fortschritt fĆ¼r die Anwendung.
Vielen Dank fĆ¼r Ihren Beitrag zu Kontalk. Ich wĆ¼nsche mir, dass es ihnen sehr gut geht und dass jeder zu diesem Zeitpunkt gut auf sich selbst aufpasst.
Hi everyone,
Whatās very strange for me is that I havenāt heard about Kontalk earlier - Iām impressed by how polished the Android app is. Fantastic project!
My name is Cosmin, Iām a scientist doing research in biology with more than half of my time in data analysis using R and Python. I do not contribute directly to open source projects, but promote open-source tools every time I can. My colleagues use Zotero, a reference manager, LibreOffice, Inkscape, ImageJ, R and Ubuntu VMs. Iāve tried messaging with Element/Matrix.org and is great as well. Kontalk is closer though to the SMS-style applications, is easier to set up with the family members and ājust worksā.
I think the only thing Kontalk is currently missing is publicity and public exposure beyond those who, like me, searched for messaging alternatives in F-droid. By the way, do I have to install Kontalk from Google Play Store to be able to leave a positive feed-back ?
Anyway, great project, I hope it will be long-lived.
Amiyah
Kentucky
Anime books
Just talking to people
I found it randomly
I havenāt found anything yet