Check out lemmy.ml/c/sopranica for full featured XMPP implementations.
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furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 year ago
What is the story with XMPP anyway. For a while, maybe 10 or more years ago it looked like the thing. Then it kind of imploded. Do people actually use it?
I know FSF may still have a server. DuckDuckGo did for a while. Maybe still does.
Biggest issues I ever had with it were firewall traversal. Most servers did not offer tls 443 at the time. The video chat extension was not wide spread either. Good public servers were sometimes hard to find too plus there was some spam.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 1 year ago
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !sopranica@lemmy.ml
derin@lemmy.beru.co 1 year ago
It still exists; it’s fine - for all intents and purposes. It fizzled out because most of the features people wanted were optional extensions to the protocol, so you wouldn’t have every feature with every client/server.
Say what you want about Matrix, having one company pushing it with a core API and user-facing application that is “good enough” (I’m not a fan of Element myself, but it does the trick for normal people looking to sign up) makes it easier to adopt.
Case in point, check out the software page of the XMPP.org website. For each piece of software there’s a small dropdown showing you how compliant it is with each standard. That kind of decision making - beyond just “which one looks/feels the nicest” - is kind of what’s been holding XMPP back all these years. (in my opinion)
Shame, too, as XMPP has always been pretty great.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Thanks. Yes it had a lot of potential. Was always confusing too… what client… what server… what should work.