It has a long healthy life ahead! Come join the party, the proof is in the pudding.
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7rokhym@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Poor XMPP, no one will just let it die.
starkzarn@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
What for?
XMPP is quite robust and open, and while it’s not in the level of simplicity of, say, IRC, it still beats pretty much everything else on connectivity and efficiency, and can be run on a potato. Storage is only slighly a concern.
OTOH nu-protocols like Mastodon stuff or Matrix stuff, while they are nice to have, are notoriously badly designed because kiddies these days can’t bother to learn C. This results in highly energy-, memory- and storage-consuming systems. In the amount of RAM I need to kick up a Matrix server (assuming it even runs) I can run ~18 XMPP services and about ~240 ircd services.
ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
When you read technical stuff about this protocol, you understand it is a great one and it should not die.
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
The VC money won’t let Matrix die. The community support won’t let XMPP die.
I know which I respect more.