Having moving stickers like in Telegram would be amazing! And Themes too. I wish I know programing. If we can add that feature I could do some character animations. Even having stories would be great for marketing the app. Imagine showing a 3D object like FBX or OBJ, or sending a draw, I can just Imagine haha. I’m a 3D artist by the way.
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I have found something interesting at Matrix weekly: https://matrix.org/blog/posts#maunium-sticker-picker
There’s a Telegram import script that’s used to reupload stickers to Matrix and generate the static sticker pack files that the picker widget uses. It’s technically also possible to make the sticker pack files yourself, but there’s no easy way to do that yet.
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Hm… could Jami be for Librem Dial? 
Gotta check that!
Thanks! I just discovered that with Mobian (arm64) sudo apt install jami works out-of-the-box, but that’s it from my side.
Here is link to Jami for iOS.
, I agree.
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Installation was smooth, but I’m not sure if PureOS repo offers GNU Jami yet. And I’m not using it at the moment, so cannot give you any further advice, sorry for that.
HEVC/H.265 support in Jami (for your eyes only 
) looks promising too.
no it doesn’t really do anything - does not seem to work
I used jami in the past and used the default servers. It felt incredibly slow and most my messages didn’t go through. Calls would work a little but usually fail. I tried again recently with someone I know and our messages went through fine but calls could be accepted but dropped before showing anything. Restarted the program and made sure permissions were given but nothing.
I think people should be careful when comparing programs like signal to telegram. Telegram, in my view, is at the same level if not worse than WA. Telegram is proprietary, not self federated and all messages are not E2EE other than secret chat but that uses telegram’s own invented, proprietary encryption. WA at least bases their encryption for messages off signal protocol.
Jami is available in Byzantium, just installed it.
However, it does not start. This is the error message:
** (jami-gnome:3942): ERROR **: 07:28:08.425: Could not init clutter : 0
Since it cannot initialize clutter I assume it’s some OpenGL issue?
The flatpak version runs however. But the UI is not adapted to small screens and while it detects the camera it’s just all black in the settings. I don’t know anyone who uses GNU Jami, so I have not added any contacts and tested chatting/calling.
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In order to perform a call, we need to use the hardware encoders and decoders present on the board instead of software ones. Without hardware acceleration, all video encoding and decoding operations are executed on the CPU. Video compression and decompression are complex algorithms that generally can not be executed in real time on CPU cores. Therefore, using software codecs would make Jami unusable.
Last year they used hardware encoders and decoders of the i.MX6, so I hope it will be possible to use the same process for i.MX8M too.
Comparison of Instant Messengers by FSF India (https://fsf.org.in/article/better-than-whatsapp/):
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does it fit the screen?
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For me, everything seems to fit in landscape. Don’t know how it works… I’ll have to install it on another phone and see if I can connect them.
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As @Photon already noted, actually confirmed, it is not that everything within Jami fits to the PinePhone screen, but will check back again from time to time.
Me as well (but I’m very slow).
I have just discovered Jami - what an amazing app 
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Does it really work – as in real world conditions? I tried it ages ago, wonder how it developed.
And what’s the advantage compered to, say, Jitsi?