The Chatty Project

When you're in the mood to talk with friendly people...

Welcome To Chatty BoB & His Cast Of Rag Chewers!

Now that the CB and Amateur Radio fad went kaput. It's time to join the 21st century, where we can continue to form real long-lasting relationships across the virtual world thanks to Video/Voice Chat Rooms, Alternative Social Media, Encrypted Email, Signal, SimpleX, Jami, Zello or the Jitsi Chat. The benefits of virtual relationships on the internet are that they can provide opportunities for people to connect with others who share similar interests, hobbies, and values, regardless of their geographical location. Farewell to the ones staying behind who won’t follow.
Now if you use alternative social media to get away from AI chat bots, censorship, hate, misinformation and annoying advertisements. Yeah, because mainstream corporately owned social media fad is Kaput! You'll find us on Mastodon, https://mastodon.online/@BookwormCowboy or on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/bookwormcowboy.bsky.social.

Here is a list of our other blogs:BookwormCowboy.com, AskBookworm.com, BookwormCowboy.org, BobbysRant.com Bookworm's Popular Fads, ZanyBob.com, Bobby's Place, Bobbyspets.com, WeirdWorldofWonder.com, and More!Bookworm Cowboy's Reading List - AllMyLinks.com

Bookworm Cowboy Chat Shack

Bookworm Cowboy Chat Shack on Zello, all are welcomed. It's a place to chat with our friends or newly discovered friends. Please be respectful to the others and try not to go over 2 minutes to give others a chance to talk.

Tutti Cowgirl Country Playground

Tutti Cowgirl Country Playground on Zello, all are welcomed. It's a place to chat with our friends or newly discovered friends. Please be respectful to the others and try not to go over 2 minutes to give others a chance to talk.

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” — Mother Teresa

CB Radio Was The Original Social Media Network
We were both hard-core CB Radio enthusiasts for years, but the Internet came along, and we sold out. Today you'll find us using one or more of these services listed below to speak with friends and family. CB Radio 2.0

Signal is a nonprofit app that offers end-to-end encryption, free calls and messages, and no ads or trackers.
SimpleX: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) Privacy redefined The first messenger without user IDs. This radically improves your privacy.
Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.
Zello is the #1 push-to-talk and walkie talkie app, used by millions people around the world. It turns any smartphone or connected device into a walkie-talkie — anywhere with Wi-Fi or cellular data service. We connect friends, family, and communities — to socialize as well as to organize in times of urgency.
Voxer Walkie Talkie is both a live "push-to-talk" system and a voice messaging system for smartphones.
Jitsi Chat let's you hold unlimited free meetings with up to 100 participants at a time. End-to-End encryption. Multiple participants can share their screen simultaneously. Remotely control other participants desktop. The jitsi.random-redirect.de service randomly redirects you to public underutilized Jitsi Meet Servers.
Element.io - Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It's decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.
Jami is a free and secure communication platform that allows you to share files, messages, and media with anyone on any device. You can use Jami for instant messaging, audio and video calls, swarms, video-conferences, screen sharing, and more.

Session is a private messenger that lets you send messages without revealing your identity or metadata. You can chat with up to 100 people at once, use voice messages and attachments, and enjoy features like groups and onion routing.

Gaming Chat Software
Serious gamer's use voice chat to talk with fellow teammates. We have compiled a list of the top voice chat clients for video gamer's.

Discord is the number-one proprietary freeware VoIP platform designed for video gaming communities, that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Discord works on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in web browsers.
TeamSpeak provides superior voice quality for its target audience, gamers, who can use the software to communicate with other players on the same team of a multiplayer game. Communicating by voice gives a competitive advantage by allowing players to keep their hands on the controls.
Mumble is an open source voice communication application that features customization in game overlay, application skins, conversation recording, and advanced voice activity detection.

You can join other Internet chat communities:

Paltalk lets you video, voice, or text chat with anyone on any device. It offers users the ability to create their own public virtual chat room. An infographic created by the company in 2015 revealed that they had surpassed 100 million users.

Camfrog offers free video chat rooms, online group chat, video conference, and live webcams for all. Camfrog client was created by Camshare in October 2003 and later acquired by Paltalk in 2010.

Signal is a nonprofit app that offers end-to-end encryption, free calls and messages, and no ads or trackers. Both me and our wife, Tutti Cowgirl use it.

Chat on the Tor Network:

OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. We started using this to replace IRC and it works.

Join The Fediverse

An alternative to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others...
Join Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/serversJoin Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform.Join Peertube: https://joinpeertube.org/Join PixelFed: https://pixelfed.org/servers

Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse.
https://fedi.directory is a list of interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Mainstream Social Media is being replaced by the Fediverse.

It's time for these mainstream social media sites to realize it's over, the corporately owned social media fad is Kaput! They destroyed it by hammering us with misleading advertising, then some block us from using ad blockers. It's filled with hate, censorship, bots, fake accounts and misleading information. These corporately owned mainstream social media sites are not in decline, it’s pushing up daisies. Just like the fad of CB and Amateur Radio, the fad of corporately owned mainstream social media is Kaput! People are slowly moving on to the next fad, which for us is the fediverse. You can follow us: mastodon.online/@BookwormCowboy

Popular Private Email Providers

Proton Mail is a private email service that uses end-to-end encryption and zero-access encryption to protect your communications from data breaches and surveillance. Based in Switzerland, founded in 2013.
TutaMail is a secure, private, end-to-end encrypted email app and a freemium secure email service. The service is advertisement-free; it relies on donations and premium subscriptions. Based in Germany, founded in 2011.
StartMail is a secure email provider that protects your data, activity, and privacy with state-of-the-art security and technology. You can create unlimited aliases, send PGP encrypted emails, and enjoy 20GB of storage, no ads, no tracking, and Dutch and European privacy. Based in the Netherlands, founded in 2014.
Mailbox.org is a secure e-mail provider that offers encryption, privacy and independence for private and business customers. Based in Germany, founded in 2014.
PurelyMail.com is a dedicated email service provider that focuses on offering secure, reliable, and user-friendly email solutions. The platform is designed for both personal and business use, providing features such as custom domain email addresses, robust spam protection, and a straightforward user interface.
Disroot is a free and open-source email provider that offers security, privacy and features. Based in the Netherlands, founded in 2015.

Quotes:“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”“You can’t change anyone, you can only change your relationship with people. So ALL you can do is tell them to go.”"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.""When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love and opportunities to you."“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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