From fe6aff38010788cffbb0f1587bfc4b6be5b74e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:55:37 +0200 Subject: more transcriptish --- xmpp-debian/transcriptish.rst | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file 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. -- cgit v1.2.3