10 points
And an objection by the author of a popular XMPP client: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
1 point
That’s a good response I hadn’t read before - thanks. Still so relevant 7 years on.
4 points
And since that time, XMPP has improved significantly (more integrated with other protocols, more efficient client and server implementations, bridges from and to activitypub, more approachable, easier to self-host…), but Signal.looks to have … stagnated? Well… the crypto payments/web3 shady stuff aside :)
-5 points
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of a popular XMPP client
10k downloads for a hideous outdated app is popular now?
2 points
FYI that’s an app that’s used by the German police and in several other “sensitive” contexts where users won’t just pull it from the play store :) ISIS even had their own fork at a point.
