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> You're welcome to either use such a decentralised service or fork signal and add decentralisation / federation. It's called XMPP. It predates Signal by ~15 y
by pmlnr 6y ago
> You're welcome to either use such a decentralised service or fork signal and add decentralisation / federation.
It's called XMPP.
It predates Signal by ~15 years.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoAnd the clients for XMPP still suck, 15 years later. You might find a good one on one OS after trying out several (install, test for a few days, repeat), but then when you want a client on your phone or another OS, you have to try the install/test cycle all over again. In my experience, most of the clients just don’t do WEll everything a modern IM client needs.... group chat without needing to know a FQDN address, alerting on new messages/mentions, image and attachment support, encryption without wonky key management, multisession support (connecting simultaneously from multiple devices not leading to problems), on and on... I used XMPP for years on iOS, android, Mac, windows, and linux. Hated it every day.
- pmlnr 6y agoConversations and it's forks are all very good clients, and their voice/video chat works perfectly once the XMPP server configures the turn server. Gajim got a lot better recently. I even managed to get Pidgin to a decent, albeit not perfect level.
- awestroke 6y agoAnd yet it hasn't become big yet.
- pmlnr 6y agoIt did, then the google reader effect kicked in. Google talk, whatsapp, facebook were all xmpp at one point, deliberately crippled, then nearly killed. See RSS.