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Yes, I had hope in the early 2000's with XMPP, but considering 20 years later we still have a fragmented ecosystem and none of the actors are willing to push fo
by eloisant 6y ago
Yes, I had hope in the early 2000's with XMPP, but considering 20 years later we still have a fragmented ecosystem and none of the actors are willing to push for a federated network (even the open source, NPO, Signal!) is really depressing.
- cheph 6y agoWell this is no accident. The whole of HN has been Signal jerking for weeks now to the point where it is really obscene, with no consideration for the inherent flaws of Signal. If a community of supposedly technological savvy people care so little for what matters then we won't get something better, and in that case I'm sticking with WhatsApp unless others go to XMPP or Matrix.
- samoa42 6y agowhole hearted agree. additional reminder that fb-messenger, whatsapp, imessage and probably a lot others started out as xmpp forks/dialects and even this was not enough to save us from the corporates.