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Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
by zaik 4y ago
Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
- imwillofficial 4y agoThat ship has sailed
- zaik 4y agoNot if we don't want to.
- imwillofficial 4y agoTo catch on, the next solution must be better than the last. It’s too cumbersome for average folks.
- olah_1 4y agoone XMPP server gets big and usernames get squatted and dealt with at the discretion of the server admin. Only solution is something like how Farcaster does it where you at least get to keep your public key the same and usernames are optional. https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#3-identity https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#3-identity Or go the urbit route and make the addresses totally user owned.
- kube-system 4y agoFederate messaging servers and make addresses domain specific. Works fine for email.
- olah_1 4y agoPeople lose their gmail accounts all the time for weird reasons. Maybe you are specifically talking about a world where everyone self hosts their own servers?
- kube-system 4y agoGmail sucks, but not for any reason caused by email the protocol.
- olah_1 4y agoIt is the fault of email, the protocol, yes. If email was better designed, it would not allow these situations to happen. For example, if server operators didn't own your account, there would be no problem. It is a protocol issue.