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by Zash 5y ago
What I'm curious about is whether this was equivalent to, or larger than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa Also whether it will turn the sky red for months.
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by Zash 5y ago
In fact, Google already had a precursor to XEP-0352 called `google:queue`, but as I remember the stated reason for shutting down XMPP as being "spam"¹. Google apparently can't deal with spam in a federated communication syste
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by Zash 5y ago
Despite what HN seems to think, XMPP is still alive and evolving. https://snikket.org/ is worth checking out as a (self-)hosted personal chat system.
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by Zash 5y ago
Why start over when you can improve? You'll most likely end up with the second system effect, probably slowly rediscover all the valid reasons for the things you disliked, probably re-make all the mistakes.
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by Zash 5y ago
One of the nice things with XMPP, where in public channels your address is generally only shown to room moderators, not to all participants.
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by Zash 5y ago
They had some homebrew encryption and authentication before, see eg https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/10/08/piercing-through... https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/10&#x2F
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by Zash 5y ago
https://snikket.org/ aims to be an easy hosted or self-hostable solution, complete with apps for popular platforms.
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by Zash 5y ago
ActivityStreams was originally an XML extension for Atom < https://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/ >. It worked just fine with a static site. https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ form
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by Zash 5y ago
Forgotten OStatus have we? That was essentially RSS feeds + optional extras like ActivityStreams and push, all gracefully degrading into plain ol' RSS / Atom feeds.
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by Zash 5y ago
and SIP, and XMPP, and maybe the odd email client
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by Zash 5y ago
This should also mark the release of Firefox ESR 91.1, which I would expect should make it way into stable releases like Debian that follow the latest ESR.
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by Zash 5y ago
was XMPP killed by Google after shutting down GTalk ?
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by Zash 5y ago
So what are you looking for?
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by Zash 5y ago
Do you have a source for "generally dwindling userbase" ?
45.
by Zash 5y ago
> Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago And then crickets for 3 years...
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by Zash 5y ago
And because SRV records are not used for the web, they can't be used at all, as some routers or something doesn't support them and instead discards them. (~10% of users according to the admin of yaxim.org) And then along comes ht
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by Zash 5y ago
qrencode -t utf8 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:network;P:password;;'
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by Zash 5y ago
I know at least https://conversejs.org/ does some sort of @mentions, I guess other clients just need more encouragement!
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by Zash 5y ago
I'm not migrating anywhere, I've been staying with XMPP through the ups and downs of Signal, WhatsApp etc.
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by Zash 6y ago
Any chat app would have issues with battery optimizations. Solution is usually to use the mobile OS vendors push notification infrastructure. Work on that in XMPP started around 2015 and most popular clients and servers should have some sup
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by Zash 6y ago
Psst, hey, XMPP isn't quite dead yet! Some of us never stopped working on it. Come help bring it back into the hype!
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by Zash 6y ago
Since we're sharing our own WTFs; You can include the same header multiple time in a HTTP message, and this is equivalent to having one such header with a comma-separated list of values. Then there's WWW-Authenticate (the one tell
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by Zash 6y ago
They're just subtly different. Why is X better than Y?
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by Zash 6y ago
That release page is a bit light on details. No release announcement blog post or similar?
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by Zash 6y ago
This is indeed something of an issue, the duality of Prosody. Should it be a complete solution or a platform for you to build on? Being one when people expect the other leads to disappointed users, and being both is a lot of work for the sm
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by Zash 6y ago
Aside: Epic Games already uses XMPP according to https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-...
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by Zash 6y ago
https://search.jabber.network/ is a good resource for finding XMPP chat rooms for varying topics.
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by Zash 6y ago
Foundations, like companies or any organization, are composed of people. People can and do get replaced, corrupted or bored and move on, they can eventually decide to take the organization in a direction unlike what was originally intended.
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by Zash 6y ago
That's why Snikket has a focus on easy invites that automate on-boarding and contact creation. Other parts of the XMPP ecosystem also have easy invites that can be shared via QR code, SMS or any other messenger. Example: https:/&
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by Zash 6y ago
> Google Talk found that almost nobody actually used the federation functionality, Compared to the number of GTalk users, a bunch of self-hosted users probably didn't count for much. > and something like 99%+ of the federation tr

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