Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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31 points | by inputmice 2 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • telesilla a minute ago

    Google & XMPP standards foundation develop Jingle XEP, so XMPP is linked to the history of Google Voice and whatever Google Talk turned into, maybe somehow inspiring Google Meet?

  • delduca 15 minutes ago

    I was so cool when facebook, google and others used to use xmpp, at that time I used a single IM client https://adium.im

    • exe34 5 minutes ago

      I had amsn when msn and yahoo messenger were the place everybody I knew was at.

  • dewey an hour ago

    > Matrix reinvented the wheel as a rubber-tyred metro. On paper, it provides real benefits, such as climbing steeper inclines, which are then used to aggressively advertise and lobby local governments to buy in. But in the end, the municipality gets locked into a single vendor.

    I stumble upon Matrix from time to time, but Jabber I haven't really seen anywhere in the past decade after my internet friends moved to IRC. Are there any bigger communities still using it? Back in the days Facebook Messenger was backed by it, so maybe there's still some bigger entity using it as a backbone for something?

    • inputmice 42 minutes ago

      XMPP these days often gets used as a friends-and-family style messenger (Think WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal replacement) rather than something communities would use (Discord/IRC). A lot of users of XMPP are also out of the public eye. NATO, police forces and intelligence agencies use it. The community style channels are supported though and a search engine for them can be found here: https://search.jabber.network/channels/1

      • Semaphor 34 minutes ago

        Yeah, I use it as a messenger for my wife and I.

    • svyatoslavpavl 28 minutes ago

      Jitsi Meet still runs on XMPP, Prosody handles the signaling. WhatsApp also started life as a patched ejabberd.

  • delduca 13 minutes ago

    I think Android still uses XMPP to delivery push notifications under the hood

    • inputmice 4 minutes ago

      Indeed. And on a Google-free Android phone the XMPP client Conversations can utilize its existing, permanent XMPP connection to deliver push notifications to other (mostly open-source) apps using an alternative to Google push (FCM) called UnifiedPush.

      There was a talk at FOSDEM about that.

      https://gultsch.video/w/gRGZqKKvNBvvMesyWNQzoK

  • lnz_me 32 minutes ago

    i set up a xmpp server a few weeks ago for agent orchestration and agent to human workflows. hadn't inatalled ejabberd in a very long time but feeling right at home.

  • zeafoamrun 16 minutes ago

    And I haven't used XMPP for about 20 of them (sadly)

    • giancarlostoro 15 minutes ago

      There was a time where both Google Chat (whatever it was called back then I lost track) and Facebook Chat were built on it. So you might have.

  • kogasa240p 33 minutes ago

    Its biggest issue is adoption because it's very solid otherwise and even supports stuff like screen sharing.