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| author | Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@trueelena.org> | 2025-07-14 11:55:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@trueelena.org> | 2025-07-14 11:55:37 +0200 |
| commit | fe6aff38010788cffbb0f1587bfc4b6be5b74e78 (patch) | |
| tree | 47a0f81594687835de506e903adce2d59c9ea966 | |
| parent | 4df6e6f223afe51317033e335ec460bae6a7ba1a (diff) | |
more transcriptish
| -rw-r--r-- | xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst b/xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst index 625f28f..fbe98dc 100644 --- a/xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst +++ b/xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ any given time or worse because they are going to abuse it in order to extract more profit. If only there was a well established chat system based on some standard -developed by multiple entities, with all of the features one expects +developed in an open way, with all of the features one expects from a chat system but federated so that one can choose between many different and independent providers, or even self-hosting. @@ -18,5 +18,15 @@ But wait, it does exist! I'm not talking about IRC, I'm talking about XMPP! -1999 +While it has been around since the last millenium, it has not remained +still, with hundred of XMPP Extenstion Protocols, or XEPs that have been +developed to add all of the features that nobody in 1999 imagined we +could need in Instant Messaging today, and more, such as IoT devices or +even social networks. + +There is a myth that this makes XMPP a mess of incompatible software, +but there is an XEP for that: XEP-0479: XMPP Compliance Suites 2023, +which is a list of XEPs that needs to be supported by Instant Messaging +servers and clients, including mobile ones, and all of the recommended +ones will mostly just work. |