Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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16 points | by inputmice 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • dewey 27 minutes ago
    > Matrix reinvented the wheel as a rubber-tyred metro. On paper, it provides real benefits, such as climbing steeper inclines, which are then used to aggressively advertise and lobby local governments to buy in. But in the end, the municipality gets locked into a single vendor.

    I stumble upon Matrix from time to time, but Jabber I haven't really seen anywhere in the past decade after my internet friends moved to IRC. Are there any bigger communities still using it? Back in the days Facebook Messenger was backed by it, so maybe there's still some bigger entity using it as a backbone for something?

    • svyatoslavpavl 5 minutes ago
      Jitsi Meet still runs on XMPP, Prosody handles the signaling. WhatsApp also started life as a patched ejabberd.
    • inputmice 19 minutes ago
      XMPP these days often gets used as a friends-and-family style messenger (Think WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal replacement) rather than something communities would use (Discord/IRC). A lot of users of XMPP are also out of the public eye. NATO, police forces and intelligence agencies use it. The community style channels are supported though and a search engine for them can be found here: https://search.jabber.network/channels/1
      • Semaphor 11 minutes ago
        Yeah, I use it as a messenger for my wife and I.
  • lnz_me 9 minutes ago
    i set up a xmpp server a few weeks ago for agent orchestration and agent to human workflows. hadn't inatalled ejabberd in a very long time but feeling right at home.
  • kogasa240p 10 minutes ago
    Its biggest issue is adoption because it's very solid otherwise and even supports stuff like screen sharing.
  • Flowdalic 13 minutes ago
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