3 ms·
I'm sorry, I'm not really into chat protocols, but what does XMPP federation mean? For what I understand I will be able to login via Pidgin into my Gmail accou
by rsoto 10y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not really into chat protocols, but what does XMPP federation mean?
For what I understand I will be able to login via Pidgin into my Gmail account, but not from a custom domain, am I right?
Either way, GTalk was such a clean, centered and small IM experiencie +10 years ago, Hangouts is just a mess.
- jkarneges 10y agoFederation is where different service providers can communicate with each other, like how email works. Meaning, you could login to Gmail (whether gmail.com or custom domain) and send messages to users with accounts on non-Gmail IM providers (practically speaking this meant hobbyist, corporate, or university IM server deployments; Google was the only major consumer IM provider to adopt a federated protocol). The shutdown is unfortunate news because the only way IM is going to be as open as email is if two major consumer providers step up and do it. We had 1 and just needed 1 more. Now we have 0.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y agoI believe that at one point a Google chat user could talk with a facebook chat user.
- martin1975 10y agoFederation means not having to reinvent the chat wheel for the umpteenth time.... Who was that quote from - physicists stand on the shoulder of giants... software and IT stand on each other's toes. Sad but true.