I’m not trying to shit on XMPP, but there is no denying the countless issues third parties like Google and Meta have caused as well as the human factor and disagreements that have derailed its progress over its lifespan. It went from promising new communications tech that everyone* was going to use to something fairly niche now.
If anything gets “discovered” along these lines I hope it’s Matrix and co now instead of what XMPP has become.
I’m not trying to shit on XMPP, but there is no denying the countless issues
There’s a lot of subjectivity and emotions there. So, let’s look at the facts instead: XMPP is a very simple protocol at its core. You can literally implement RFC6120 in an afternoon. But you have no reason to, because of the many existing mature implementations, which takes us to the second important aspect (IMO): “liveliness”. XMPP has many well maintained client AND server implementations and a rich and dynamic ecosystem. Unlike Matrix, Zulip, RocketChat, Mattermost, … it’s not pushed forward by a single entity, which severely reduces the probability and effects a bad actor might introduce. XMPP is extensible in ways that makes it more future-proof and resilient than most alternatives.
If anything gets “discovered” along these lines I hope it’s Matrix and co now instead of what XMPP has become.
Those not learning from history are doomed to repeat it, and if you ask me, Matrix is doing everything that XMPP did, but worse :) I only arrived to XMPP after fighting for the Matrix cause and deeming it a lost one. No time to elaborate, but the protocol itself is insane and its creators are experts in deception and empty promises.
When you need to look at something “at its core” you acknowledge there is a lot more to the situation then just the core of it. The core of HTTP, IRC and just about every other protocol is very simple too. That doesn’t mean that XMPP is all that great and in fact once you get past the core you run into a nightmare of specifications, “great ideas” and fragmentation that got completely out of hand a long time ago and the reason why many people moved on from it.
It’s a wonder it works you mean.
I’m not trying to shit on XMPP, but there is no denying the countless issues third parties like Google and Meta have caused as well as the human factor and disagreements that have derailed its progress over its lifespan. It went from promising new communications tech that everyone* was going to use to something fairly niche now.
If anything gets “discovered” along these lines I hope it’s Matrix and co now instead of what XMPP has become.
There’s a lot of subjectivity and emotions there. So, let’s look at the facts instead: XMPP is a very simple protocol at its core. You can literally implement RFC6120 in an afternoon. But you have no reason to, because of the many existing mature implementations, which takes us to the second important aspect (IMO): “liveliness”. XMPP has many well maintained client AND server implementations and a rich and dynamic ecosystem. Unlike Matrix, Zulip, RocketChat, Mattermost, … it’s not pushed forward by a single entity, which severely reduces the probability and effects a bad actor might introduce. XMPP is extensible in ways that makes it more future-proof and resilient than most alternatives.
Those not learning from history are doomed to repeat it, and if you ask me, Matrix is doing everything that XMPP did, but worse :) I only arrived to XMPP after fighting for the Matrix cause and deeming it a lost one. No time to elaborate, but the protocol itself is insane and its creators are experts in deception and empty promises.
Edit: more about Matrix https://programming.dev/comment/66569
When you need to look at something “at its core” you acknowledge there is a lot more to the situation then just the core of it. The core of HTTP, IRC and just about every other protocol is very simple too. That doesn’t mean that XMPP is all that great and in fact once you get past the core you run into a nightmare of specifications, “great ideas” and fragmentation that got completely out of hand a long time ago and the reason why many people moved on from it.