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Depends on what you class as a group. It is unlikely that their unfederated server will come close to the number of users on even the 114 public federated serve
by upofadown 9y ago
Depends on what you class as a group. It is unlikely that their unfederated server will come close to the number of users on even the 114 public federated servers, much less all the federated private servers.
I noticed something interesting while looking; it appears that at least one public XMPP server has experienced a recent large influx of new users.
>"The number of daily active users has increased more then three-fold in the last year alone." [1]
[1] https://jabber.at/b/temporary-suspension-of-registration/ https://jabber.at/b/temporary-suspension-of-registration/
- mickael 9y agoOn the increasing number of accounts, it could as well be due to a rise in spam that we have seen on XMPP.
- upofadown 9y agoThat's interesting. How do you do spam on XMPP?
- ge0rg 9y agoYou register with public jabber servers and send thousands of messages to crawled and constructed destination addresses: https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-im/ https://yaxim.org/blog/2017/12/22/spam-reduction-on-yax-dot-... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-source-of-all-the-recent-xmpp-spam/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xsender-the-s... https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto https://github.com/ge0rg/jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto
- upofadown 9y agoOK, thanks. I hadn't thought such a thing would be worth the bother, but I guess spam will find a way. I guess the eventual problem here is that everyone affected will turn off reception of messages from strangers. That would make XMPP somewhat less useful as a general method of getting in touch with someone.