XMPP

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Quite nice to see some networks being supported that are lesser known in the west. Apparently there is a sizable number of Chinese XMPP users these days.

So now that discord has made a major oopsie, people are now talking about alternatives. However I do not see people mention XMPP a lot (Compared to Matrix, which gets mentioned a lot).

So I was wondering if we all could brainstorm & share:

• what features Discord has that XMPP currently does not
• & whether those "features" are being worked on
• & if so then; useful links can be provided.

Also let's keep this post as active as possible to track development, if you are interested.

Backwards compatible group chats (MUC) and e2ee is still work in progress though.

@thecoffemaker@rebel.ar knows more about it. Mastodon🧵

This looks like a quite promising fork of Dino.im (which has somewhat stalled in development).

It has significantly improved A/V calls it seems, built in Tor support, on-device database encryption and a few other interesting fixes and improvements.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40858754

On dino and conversations for example I can chat to myself on a chat to my own JID. As simple as that. On profanity I can not do /roster add <my_jid>, nothing gets added, although there's no failure either. And I can't do either /sub request <my_jid>, it gives the error:

Error Invalid presence type

And if I include something something to the chat to myself on dino for example, then my JID shows up as unsubscribed, and if I do /omemo start <my_jid> I can't se whatever I posted on dino or somewhere else. But this is weird, because whenever connecting to my account my JID doesn't show up as a possible contact to chat with, and I can do /omemo start <my_jid> but it still shows up weird...

Sadly I will not make it to the congress this year, but last time I went the XMPP assembly was very interesting.

you may know bonjour (xep-0174), with it you can chat in local networks, and no server is necessary.

it's easy, for example i do it with pidgin.

and i had this problem: i also self host xmpp server. sometimes if there's no electricity at home for hours, i loose connection with eveybody.

yggdrasil, on the other hand, is a mesh network with dynamic routing. you can reach your contact (maybe your other computer?) via this or that route, whatever route works the best.

there's no dependence on one selfhosted server.

so i was thinking, how to make bonjour to work over yggdrasil? for me it was extremely necessary to use existing standardized solution. i did not want to write a new messenger app. i wanted a solution that would allow any existing bonjour client to work also over yggdrasil.

and here it is, in less than 300 lines of pascal code.