I mean both of those protocols serve similiar purpose, both are federated and both considered secure. So why can’t I have an XMPP address in my profile instead of Matrix? Or are there any reasons why Matrix “works” better with lemmy?
There is an issue for it here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1693
It’s great to see that there are other people who are also concerned with this. Thank you! I thumbed up both of your issues. I hope devs will get to them some day
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It doesn’t only promote “Matrix”, but rather the commercial service on
element.io. See my issue/enhancement request here.
I’ve really wanted a unified contact and chat for a long time. I used to use pidgin for several years but I really wanted something that stored credentials encrypted, was usable on all my devices, and supported things like stickers and reactions. Now I’ve been really getting into federated services, and really want to use matrix since it seems to support all those things - but this post made me wonder about why did xmpp never really interest me before, and why now do I want to go with matrix instead. I don’t know enough about either standard to know which is objectively better, so I think matrix has just gotten me excited because so many others are using it. I haven’t seen a link to someone’s xmpp account or chat or w/e… literally ever. But I’ve seen plenty of matrix channels. Edit: Actually, while continuing to explore slrpnk.net I found an xmpp link “in the wild” on c/self-hosting. That was a welcome surprise! Hopefully both standards can just support each other relatively well, so the federated chat ecosystem doesn’t hurt itself by splitting in half.