Daniel Gultsch

Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳

On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the publicÂą.

Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.

In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.

Âą: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/01/04/1621211

#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay #JabberDay

Open Real Time Messaging System - Slashdot

Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc). Most of the initial design and protocol work is done, as well as a working server and a few test clients."...

Jan 4 at 8:14amWeb
Show threadKhleedrilJan 4
@daniel That post contains more words and information than the article it refers to!
Show threadZashJan 4

@khleedril @daniel Way back in 1999 it probably looked more like http://web.archive.org/web/19990418055942/http://www.jabber.org/

These days jabber.org is just one instance among many, not a software project.

Jabber: Home

Jabber is a new open-source instant messaging platform designed to be open, fast, and easy to use and extend. It works directly over the Internet, has distributed servers, utilizes an XML based protocol, and has transp arent compatibility with other instant messaging systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).

Show threadHenry Edward HardyJan 4

So, what is IRC?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1459

"Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform."

@daniel

Show thread♾️ WaterJan 4
@daniel We all just pretend the Matrix protocol with federation, builtin E2E encryption and several open source client and server implementations does not exist.
Show threadnulfloxJan 5
@hisold As far as I know, Matrix locks you into their own encryption. Multiple XMPP clients supports OTR, besides OMEMO.
Federation? So many people sticks with matrix.org.
Amount of stable/actively developed server can be comparable here, so Matrix doesn't seem to be superior compared to XMPP.
Amount of clients suddenly doesn't make a protocol good. Maybe make one if you disagree with all of the clients that currently exists?
Matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Show thread♾️ WaterJan 5

@nulflox The Olm encryption algorithm is public. You could implement it yourself but you should never implement crypto yourself.

I don't think federation works on Mastodon. Most people are on mastodon.social. That doesn't look good to me. The amount of clients doesn't suddenly make the fediverse good.

Show threadnulfloxJan 5
@hisold Olm is public, but so is OMEMO and OTR and OpenPGP.
I have the same opinion about Mastodon, I'm only here because nothing else is appealing to me.
Show threadEarzu ChanFeb 25
It's time for the old protocol to cough up some gold coins