A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as “an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse.”

  • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.org
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    10 months ago

    For some weird reason many people just plain ignore the existance of XMPP when they’re discussing decentralized protocols. Is it because Matrix outshadowed it?

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      10 months ago

      There is this wierd meme that IRC is “outdated” and XMPP is “dead”, both of which is completely untrue, but somehow the tech-bro hivemind continues to spout this nonsense when ever the topic comes up.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        AFAIK the most complained about thing with xmpp is that there are so many standards and every server isn’t guaranteed to implement them. That and just being old which is no curse but people take that as a negative sometimes.

        It’s honestly pretty good IMO.