alt Hacker NewsYes. Unfortunately it seems that Matrix is the winner, but I think Matrix is over-engineered.
XMPP was nice. Especially in the old times when Google Hangouts and Facebook Chat were also XMPP based. Being able to talk to people on another service without needing an account there was a nice thing to have for a few months.
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tcfhgj • today at 2:06 PM
So far it looks more like walled gardens are the real winners.
What you maybe see as overengineering, I see as a prerequisite for wider adoption.
These days aren't the old days any more, when you only ever used a native app without e2ee on a computer.
syhol • today at 2:25 PM
My main problem with matrix is that it feels sluggish. I'm told the experience can be improved by running your own homeserver so I'll be trying that sometime this year.
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The interop was a nice feature implemented by their engineers, but it violated the lock-in operational principles of the gatekeeper services, so it had to be abandoned. Let's see if the EU Digital Markets Act will bring back XMPP interfaces to the big ones... ;)