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Ok, but what is XMPP? | Video (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A quick primer on XMPP & how/why you should host your own server for low-resource-usage, encrypted chat & other pubsub server.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Denshi explains the basics of XMPP: The future of decentralized messaging." > finally someone that actually understands what they're saying. Matrix is questionable open-source and privacy disaster, XMPP is tested, reliable, secure and above all a truly open standard and decentralized it just lacks some investment in better mobile clients.

What people fail to see is that XMPP is the only solution that treats messaging and video like email: just provide an address and the servers and clients will cooperate with each other in order to maintain a conversation. Everything else is just an attempt at yet another vendor lock-in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why I don’t trust Rich Communication Services (RCS) being developed by the big tech giants. I can almost guarantee it’s meant to meet minimum legal requirements otherwise Google, Facebook, et al. would have reverted their services to XMPP federation on a protocol with now even more years of battle testing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only part of RCS that's open is the protocol used for servers, like Google's Jibe and Samsung's messages server, to talk to each other.

There is currently no easy way to run such a server yourself, there are none available, and even if one did become available and you could run it, good luck making it talk to the big boys' servers as they could just dismiss you as spam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Naturally. Is there a term like greenwashing or sportswashing but for free software?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Openwashing? I made it up, but it could work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Who is Denshi?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great presentation! I didn't know I could make video calls on xmpp ...none the xmpp apps I downloaded have the option to call my wife's account..is this a server enabled feature?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think you need a TURN/STUN server connected

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Video? Is it my app or did you share the wrong link?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Good catch! The Lemmy UI isn’t straightforward. I thought I needed to upload a separate image for the post—not that you choose between URL vs. image despite the UI seemingly allowing both. Fixed!