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"The Ecosystem is Moving" was wrong then and is still wrong today. Abandoning the goal of decentralization and federation for selfish gains is a slippery slope.
by shmerl 6y ago
"The Ecosystem is Moving" was wrong then and is still wrong today. Abandoning the goal of decentralization and federation for selfish gains is a slippery slope. Those who want to go back to the dark ages of AOL and Compuserve will always find some new excuse why to do so.
Matrix approach seems to be better than XMPP though, because it actually works well in the browser.
- goffi 6y agoXMPP does work well in the browser, you can connect using websocket nowadays, and we have some really good web clients (Converse.js or Movim for instance).
- southerntofu 6y ago> Matrix (...) actually works well in the browser. Jabber/XMPP has standardised XMPP over HTTP back in 2014. https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html Arguably clients were not that good at the time, but nowadays there are pretty good web clients. ConverseJS and JSXC focus on chat usecases and implement OMEMO encryption (standard based on Signal protocol). Movim et Salut-à-Toi develop more usecases (social networking, federated forging, etc) though they are less polished at the moment.