It feels like there could/should be a good modern chat protocol and voice protocol and you just pick which interface you want to use, much like email currently does, except for chatrooms.
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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
How complicated is a federated messenger? Because it feels like matrix is the only one but there’s always an issue
eronth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
There is: XMPP 🤷
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
modern
But i also feel like xmpp got feature creeped. Not to long ago, basically every messenger spoke its own subset of xmpp, basically.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
It’s not any worse than the differen’t feature support levels of different Matrix clients. But especially on Android, XMPP has nice modern clients with all the features you woukd expect, including a/v calls and reactions/stickers.
The main issue right now are up to date Windows desktop clients, but on Linux desktop there are some good options.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
Add voice to IRC. 🤷🏻♂️
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Good idea. That makes me wonder if voice over IRC is a thing. I feel like there might only be four people who know how to use it, but I bet I would enjoy hanging out with those four people.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.
It was glorious.
kayky@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Matrix is the best option and we should be focusing on improving it instead of restarting from scratch.
They need more resources and better design, but that comes with time. Don’t let them sucker you out of money to fuel their consumerist lifestyles.