• hal@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    This couldn’t be more wrong actually.

    Xmpp is far from death. Just because many started to use matrix instead doesn’t mean it’s dead. Even though matrix is a Ressource and performance nightmare much more so than xmpp will ever be.

    I’m an IT specialist and work in IT too. I also selfhosted a lot of stuff publicly.

    XMPP is used by many companies like Facebook , Google, Nintendo, GitHub, zoom, WhatsApp, Apple etc.

    Xmpp is a an official Standard.unlikr things like matrix.

    And if you think that xmpp has battery issues.oeadays then that tells me you used any xmpp app like conversation/snikket etc. like many years ago.

    My xmpp Apps use way less battery than any matrix app ever could.

    XMPP is fast, reliable and just works. Matrix is a nightmare to selfhost, too.

    IRC? Irc has no E2EE whatsoever. Therfore isn’t even comparable to xmpp with omemo or matrix.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      XMPP is used by many companies like Facebook , Google, Nintendo, GitHub, zoom, WhatsApp, Apple etc.

      Facebook doesn’t use XMPP; they use a custom protocol built on top of MQTT. WhatsApp was using a binary equivalent to XMPP (keeping the same stanzas but removing the XML), but I’m not sure if they still are. Do you have a source stating that the other companies use XMPP?

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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      1 year ago

      Xmpp is far from death. Just because many started to use matrix instead doesn’t mean it’s dead. Even though matrix is a Ressource and performance nightmare much more so than xmpp will ever be.

      How is matrix a performance nightmare? been running a matrix server for years with almost no issues. I guess the only exception was the few times I ran out of hdd space, but that’s it.

      Xmpp is a an official Standard.unlikr things like matrix.

      What’s an official standard? Matrix is a protocol just like xmpp and the specs are public, just like with xmpp.

      Matrix is a nightmare to selfhost, too.

      It’s literally as easy as running a docker container and editing a yaml file, at least for synapse.