Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim
aksdb@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe beauty of XMPP is this: you can use any server, and any client, and you can talk to anyone connected to the larger XMPP network, even if they made different server/client choices than you did.
That’s a very optimistic and naive view. XMPP consists of a shit ton of extensions, and different clients implement different subsets of these. So it’s very possible that two different clients fail to do an audio or video call, because the other decided to use a different extension than the other for not implement it at all.
impolitecarry@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Thats a very fair point. My mistake was, that when I say “talk to each other”, my brain implicitly says “talk via text over messages”. Even then omemo is not universally supported yet, I think, so, encrypted messages can also be hit or miss.
But in OP’s case, this still kind of works, in the sense of, it doesn’t matter which instance of movim they and their friends are on, they will still be able to intercommunicate, right?
aksdb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure. I also don’t want to shit talk XMPP. I prefer XMPP over Matrix any day. But it can be tricky (just like Matrix; which is funny, since Matrix set out to improve on the mistakes they claimed XMPP made).