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It's unrelated, except for the fact that I used the reverse engineering of the facebook messenger protocol by the mautrix team [1]. XMPP has had bridges more or

by nicoco 4y ago

It's unrelated, except for the fact that I used the reverse engineering of the facebook messenger protocol by the mautrix team [1]. XMPP has had bridges more or less from the start. [3] I may add a "matrix plugin" [2] if I feel like it someday, but probably after I implement group chat support. Then you'll be able to use XMPP<->Matrix<->some-other-thing for extra over-engineering points. ;) I prefer XMPP because it's lighter on resources, server-wise at least, and it's managed through a democratic process, which has it upsides and downsides. As someone I like said "democracy is boring, dictatorship works faster". [1] https://github.com/mautrix/facebook https://github.com/mautrix/facebook [2] https://todo.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/27 https://todo.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/27 [3] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0100.html https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0100.html

Arathorn 4y ago
fwiw, Matrix is also a democratic process: https://spec.matrix.org/proposals/#process https://spec.matrix.org/proposals/#process. (As much as i'd love to be a dictator :P)
- nicoco 4y ago
  I did not know that, I gotta edit a bunch of replies now, thanks for correcting me. To be fair, one of the reason I use XMPP and not matrix is that I didn't hear about matrix until after I managed to set up my own server and get some of my entourage to use it too, about 5 years ago or so. Interoperability is the important part anyway, and I'll work on slidge-matrix when I fix/improve some stuff in the existing core/plugins.
  - Arathorn 4y ago
    tbh Matrix was pretty green 5 years ago, so you probably didn't miss much. Thanks for considering a slidge-matrix bridge. On the Matrix side, we already have https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost as our main Matrix<->XMPP bridge, but it could definitely be better, and the more interop between open protocols the better \o/ :)
- remram 4y ago
  That's great! Who votes?
  - progval 4y ago
    The Spec Core Team, whose members are listed here: https://matrix.org/foundation/ https://matrix.org/foundation/ Based on their Github profiles, 7 are affiliated with Element (either employee or CEO), 1 isn't

by nicoco 4y ago

Arathorn 4y ago

fwiw, Matrix is also a democratic process: https://spec.matrix.org/proposals/#process https://spec.matrix.org/proposals/#process. (As much as i'd love to be a dictator :P)

nicoco 4y ago
I did not know that, I gotta edit a bunch of replies now, thanks for correcting me. To be fair, one of the reason I use XMPP and not matrix is that I didn't hear about matrix until after I managed to set up my own server and get some of my entourage to use it too, about 5 years ago or so. Interoperability is the important part anyway, and I'll work on slidge-matrix when I fix/improve some stuff in the existing core/plugins.
- Arathorn 4y ago
  tbh Matrix was pretty green 5 years ago, so you probably didn't miss much. Thanks for considering a slidge-matrix bridge. On the Matrix side, we already have https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost as our main Matrix<->XMPP bridge, but it could definitely be better, and the more interop between open protocols the better \o/ :)
remram 4y ago
That's great! Who votes?
- progval 4y ago
  The Spec Core Team, whose members are listed here: https://matrix.org/foundation/ https://matrix.org/foundation/ Based on their Github profiles, 7 are affiliated with Element (either employee or CEO), 1 isn't