XMPP and Metadata - Hacker News

Posted by todsacerdoti 5 days ago

34 points | 4 comments

ekjhgkejhgk 1 hour ago|

Watch the most popular clients[1] gain traction as countries (e.g. UK) pass laws mandating that tech companies backdoor their apps/encryption.

[1] Conversations for Android and Gajim for Debian.

buttocks 2 hours ago|

I always liked XMPP and SIP as messaging protocols. So easy to read and understand and implement. Both are extensible and can be made secure.

rootnod3 53 minutes ago|

Yes. Unfortunately it seems that Matrix is the winner, but I think Matrix is over-engineered.

XMPP was nice. Especially in the old times when Google Hangouts and Facebook Chat were also XMPP based. Being able to talk to people on another service without needing an account there was a nice thing to have for a few months.

ge0rg 31 minutes ago||

The interop was a nice feature implemented by their engineers, but it violated the lock-in operational principles of the gatekeeper services, so it had to be abandoned. Let's see if the EU Digital Markets Act will bring back XMPP interfaces to the big ones... ;)