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I honestly don’t remember ever using open protocols to chat, sorry. Born in ‘97, I was too young for IRC’s height, and although I flirted with XMPP, none of my
by boramalper 2y ago
I honestly don’t remember ever using open protocols to chat, sorry.
Born in ‘97, I was too young for IRC’s height, and although I flirted with XMPP, none of my friends were there so it was just me and a handful of like-minded people I’ve met on the Internet. I think XMPP’s peak was when Facebook and Google supported it for a while, before erecting the walls.
Now there is Matrix which serves a similar niche (albeit more successfully) but doesn’t seem that interested in being a WhatsApp/iMessage replacement for casual day-to-day use. Discord and Telegram have a huge social network element to them but in my limited experience, the performance issues in the very protocol itself and/or with Element (the de-facto Matrix client) hinder its adoption.
- CalRobert 2y agoYeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But as the olds like me fade away nobody who remembers the open internet will be around to say what we lost :-(
- boramalper 2y ago> Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But AIM, ICQ, MSN etc weren't open protocols either right? It was gaim/others reverse-engineering those protocols, like Pidgin [0] today. [0] https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/ https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/
- CalRobert 2y agoGood point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol Though the lack of a reverse engineered Slack protocol (remember when they had an IRC bridge?) suggests companies are better at preventing this now. Edit: apparently there's https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple at least!
- mauvia 2y agoActually there was a golden age where XMPP supported Google Talk and Facebook Messenger.