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Theory versus reality. The theory of federated XMPP is exactly as you said. The reality is much more of a mess, with multi-device issues -- routing issues --
by MetaCosm 12y ago
Theory versus reality. The theory of federated XMPP is exactly as you said.
The reality is much more of a mess, with multi-device issues -- routing issues -- federation issues, not to mention a ton of non-XMPP messaging services.
- frabcus 12y agoAnd most importantly, no identity system which end users know about. (i.e. people know about email addresses, but Facebook users use XMPP without knowing how to refer to people on other services)
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoAll these problems were applicable to email in the past as well. It took a lot of iteration to get everything working as smoothly as it appears to work now, provided we ignore the massive issue of spam and almost total inability to make it secure.