They don’t explicitly ban torrenting, but they banned port forwarding in 2023 which heavily limits who you can connect to.

https://jitsi.org/

History doesn’t transfer to desktop clients. Only new content after desktop client is added is synced.

Great admin team, public finances, reasonable rules, good defederation policy, data is hosted in the EU.

lemmy.zip would be my recommendation.

It was a conscious decision for them not to enforce E2EE by default. https://web.archive.org/web/20211215132539/https://infosec-handbook.eu/articles/xmpp-aitm/

XMPP clients have like 10 different implementations because of that and are not always consistent with each other or even function universally across platforms.

But I’m not an author. That would be @[email protected].

In 2020 Google claimed it was supposed to be limited to a single region in partnership with a single carrier. And was never meant to be put up on Play Store.

A spokesperson from Google reached out to clarify some details about the Device Lock Controller app. To start with, Google says they launched this app in collaboration with a Kenyan carrier called Safaricom.

Google has confirmed that the Device Lock Controller app should not be listed on the Google Play Store for users in the U.S., and they will work to take down the listing.

Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-device-lock-controller-banks-payments/

Of course, it was a lie since it’s still on Play Store an of today and in use.