This is how I feel when I get an SMS from an email address. There are 0 legitimate people who would message me that way. I have an entire rant on XMPP in some

This is how I feel when I get an SMS from an email address. There are 0 legitimate people who would message me that way. I have an entire rant on XMPP in some other HN thread, but basically I agree, chat federation is for nerds. And if XMPP wanted its federation dream to come true, the core standard (not including extensions) needed to be more rigid and keep up with the times. Instead, every sever ended up supporting a very different feature set, usually lacking things you'd take for granted in other chat apps.