Mastodawn

So I set up a XMPP server in my homelab this weekend to see how the ecosystem has evolved since the last time I used it. Only took me a few hours.

It seems like it has pretty much everything we'd expect from IM these days? E2EE with forward secrecy, group chats, message archives, reactions, file uploads, audio messages, voice and video calling, location sharing, etc. etc. It's even federated!

Why are we sleeping on this tech? Is there some unmitigated downside I haven't discovered yet?

#xmpp

> Why are we sleeping on this tech? Is there some unmitigated downside I haven't discovered yet?

No. The other tech has better advertising .. and that's all there is to it.

Happy to have you back on #XMPP !

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ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333 4d ago

@gnemmi @smn ive always liked xmpp. only barrier ive seen is getting nontechnical connections to onboard.

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Justin Fitzsimmons 4d ago

@jae @gnemmi yeah, I just ran into this actually. Told a friend that I'm using Conversations on Android. Then they tell me it's $7 on the play store. I was blindsided by that because I installed it from F-Droid, where it's free.

Installing F-Droid or paying the play store tax is high barrier of entry for non-technical folks to experiment with the tech.

Which is something I say with mixed feelings, because open source developers absolutely deserve to be compensated.

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Gonzalo Nemmi

@smn true .. but it's also true that it has become pretty common to find #conversations_im for free several times a year .. and sometimes even a month. @daniel has been very generous several times this year, setting Conversations for free download from the Google Play Store, specially at #diday