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FluffyChat needs YOUR help!

FluffyChat is developed by volunteers and will always be free for everyone. But hosting and development are not possible without financial support.

Right now I spend almost all of my free time developing FluffyChat, completely unpaid. However, this is not something I can do forever. The future of FluffyChat depends on people like you.

Most people will ignore this message. But if FluffyChat is useful to you, please consider making a small donation.

Support FluffyChat here:
https://ko-fi.com/krille
https://liberapay.com/KrilleChritzelius

Thank you for helping keep FluffyChat alive and independent.

Push notifications are a great way to make sure you don't miss important messages in FluffyChat. For users who do not use Google Services (for example Huawei Phones, Amazon Fire tablets or custom roms), setting up push notifications is slightly different.

FluffyChat attempts to set up push notifications automatically every time you launch the app. However, if you do not have Google Services on your device, you may receive an error message. In this case, it is necessary to use the an UnifiedPush app such as Ntfy, UP-FCM Distributor (Google) or Conversations.

Table of Contents

• Using Ntfy
  • 🏪 Step 1: Installing and Setting Up ntfy
  • 🔋 Step 2: Deactivate Battery Optimization for ntfy
  • ✅ Step 3: Checking Push Configuration in FluffyChat
  • 🥳 Step 4: Receiving Push Notifications
• Using Conversations

Using Ntfy

In this article, we'll show you how to configure push notifications on your Android device using the ntfy app.

🏪 Step 1: Installing and Setting Up ntfy

1. If you already have FluffyChat installed but are not receiving push notifications, close the app completely (by swiping it away in the overview) and open the PlayStore (or F-Droid) on your Android device.

2. Search for the app ntfy and install it.

3. After installing ntfy, open the app at least once.

4. Now, return to FluffyChat and open the app.

🔋 Step 2: Deactivate Battery Optimization for ntfy

To ensure that FluffyChat can reliably send push notifications, it's important to deactivate battery optimization for the "ntfy" app.

1. Go to the [Android settings] on your device.

2. Look for "Apps" or "Applications" and select "ntfy" from the list of installed apps.

3. Tap on "Battery" and select "Battery optimization."

4. In the list of apps exempted from battery optimization, make sure "ntfy" is selected.

✅ Step 3: Checking Push Configuration in FluffyChat

1. Open FluffyChat and navigate to the [Settings].

2. Choose "Notifications" from the menu.

3. In the notification settings, you'll see a list of "Pushers." The "Pusher" for "ntfy" should be at the bottom of the list.

🥳 Step 4: Receiving Push Notifications

To ensure that everything is set up correctly, ask a friend to send you a message in FluffyChat and check if you receive a push notification.

Using Conversations

If you are using XMPP in addition to Matrix and already have Conversations configured, you can follow these steps to get FluffyChat push notifications through it:

1. Open Conversations.
2. Touch the three dots on top right.
3. Select Settings and scroll down to UnifiedPush Distributor.
4. Touch XMPP account and select the XMPP account you wish to receive notifications through.
5. Open FluffyChat. If it doesn't offer to receive notifications through Conversations, check the notification settings (see step 3 for Ntfy above).

Following these steps should successfully set up push notifications in FluffyChat for users without Google Services. If you are interested in hosting your own push service, you can take a look at unifiedpush.org.

FluffyChat supports end to end encryption. You can enable it per chat. Once enabled it cannot be disabled anymore for security reasons. You can not enable encryption for public rooms as this makes no sense when anyone can join and leave the room anyway. Once you have enabled encryption, the server is no longer able to read the content of your messages. It will encrypt all text messages and files.

To be safe from man-in-the-middle attacks, you should take a look at the device list. You can do this in the encryption settings of a chat. Is there a suspicious device which you or your chat partner don't know? Then you can block it by moving the toggle to the left.

The color of the toggle shows you the security state. Orange means, that this device is not verified. Grey means that it is blocked and won't receive the encryption keys. This means that this device won't be able to read your messages anymore! Green means that this device is verified.

To verify the devices of another user, start the verification in a direct chat. For this you have a "Start verification" button in the encryption settings of a direct chat. Be sure that you are standing next to this person or you are connected via phone or any other secure channel. When you have started the verification, you will both see a set of emojis on your device. Compare them and tap on "They match". Wait a little bit and then you should see that all devices become green.

Table of Contents

• 1. License
• 2. Disable end-to-end encryption!
• 3. Stay up to date!
• 4. Official Support

1. License

FluffyChat is licensed under AGPL. Read the license (https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/blob/main/LICENSE) and make sure that your fork is open source under the same license and that you fulfill all requirements. Maybe you should consider contacting a lawyer before you publish your fork.

2. Disable end-to-end encryption!

Due to US export regulations you are not allowed to publish your app in a store or anywhere on a US server before you have removed everything regarding the encryption or fulfill the regulations.

Learn more: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption

If you need help from us with using E2EE in your fork read more below under the topic "Official Support".

3. Stay up to date!

FluffyChat contains security related stuff. If we find a security bug, we will try to fix it as soon as possible and ship it with a new version. But this means that your fork is out of date and a security risk. You can't be awake 24 hours a day so you must decide how you protect your users by chosing one of the following methods:

1. Make your fork as minimal as possible and enable repository mirroring. Set up a CI which publishes new versions automatically if FluffyChat publishes a bug fix.
2. Never sleep and pay a big team where one guy at least is never sleeping.
3. Contact famedly.com to buy official support.

4. Official Support

FluffyChat is free as in free speech and not free beer! Please contact my company famedly.com for offers and official support and take in mind that it costs a lot of work and time to maintain FluffyChat or the Famedly Matrix SDK. So we can't give you support for free. So please expect around 1$ per month per user of your fork.

FluffyChat இல் பிற பயனர்களைக் கண்டறிய பல வழிகள் உள்ளன.

1. காட்சிப் பெயரின்படி தேடவும்: தேடலில் ஒரு நபரின் காட்சிப் பெயரை உள்ளிடலாம். நீங்கள் ஏற்கனவே அந்த நபருடன் அரட்டையைப் பகிர்ந்துள்ளீர்கள் என்றால் மட்டுமே இது செயல்படும் @krille:janian.de), நீங்கள் அதை நேரடியாக தேடலில் உள்ளிடலாம். இது ஒரு மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியைப் போலவே செயல்படுகிறது: @username:servername.
2. QR குறியீட்டை வருடு செய்யுங்கள்: வருடு செய்ய மற்றவரின் QR குறியீட்டை வருடு செய்யலாம் அல்லது உங்களுடையதை வருடு செய்யலாம். இணைப்பைக் சொடுக்கு செய்வதன் மூலம் உங்களை நேரடியாக இணைக்க முடியும்.

You can add a sticker pack from the internet. For example this volpeon.ink does an incredible job:

https://volpeon.ink/emojis/

Just follow these steps:

1. Download one of the packs as a zip file

2. Open FluffyChat

3. Go to "Settings" > "Chat" > "Custom emotes and stickers"

4. Tap on the three dot menu top right and tap on "Import from zip file"

5. Select the zip file and if you like edit the sticker names

You can also find preconfigured sticker packs in Matrix. I recommend Nico's Sticker Collection:

https://matrix.to/#/#nico's-stickers:neko.dev

The sticker collection for FluffyChat unfortunately does not have yet a large selection:

https://matrix.to/#/#fluffychat-stickers:janian.de

1. Join the public room

2. Open the three dot menu top right and tap on "Emote Settings"

3. Select the sticker pack in the room you like

4. Toggle "Enable emote pack globally"

Have fun with your stickers! :-)