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Irc left out federation when the spec was crafted in 1984. It was deemed to bandwidth heavy. Jabber/xmpp was a good step in the right direction. Too bad it ove
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
Irc left out federation when the spec was crafted in 1984. It was deemed to bandwidth heavy.
Jabber/xmpp was a good step in the right direction. Too bad it overused plugins and bad extensions and XML abuse. Would have been loads better had they though far enough in advance.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoIt's not federated, but it is distributed and fault tolerant. The protocol is open and widely implemented and the implementations are mature and stable.
- peterwwillis 8y agoI mean, Slack isn't federated either. I don't know of any chat platforms that are federated except Jabber. edit Gchat and AIM federated in 2011, but AIM is dead now, so...