Comment by AceJohnny2
14 hours ago
As a former XMPP believer, I will say that the extremely fragmented capability state of the XMPP ecosystem, whatever people may claim, is the exact proof that vindicates Signal's position.
14 hours ago
As a former XMPP believer, I will say that the extremely fragmented capability state of the XMPP ecosystem, whatever people may claim, is the exact proof that vindicates Signal's position.
As a XMPP user in the modern times, XMPP ecosystem and its alleged fragmentation affects me and my users about… never. Every major platform has at least one decent client that support all essential features (reactions, message corrections, A/V calls, easy onboarding, modern encryption, …) and every one of them receives a healthy flow of contributions. Client developers talk to one another, coordinate protocol discussion and features roll-out (reactions for instance didn't happen "overnight", but pretty close).
I'm certainly not willing trade a theoretical minor annoyance in exchange for my (literally) vital messaging needs to be subject to enshittification, or abuse by a single actor (which controls whether I can access the network, when, whom I can speak with, what features I am allowed to use, and whether it's time to rope me into buying some cryptoshitcoin).