When sharing XMPP, what is the best landingpage to show people? I’d like to have something of similar function and quality as https://element.io/ and https://joinmastodon.org/
When sharing XMPP, what is the best landingpage to show people? I’d like to have something of similar function and quality as https://element.io/ and https://joinmastodon.org/
Yeah, it doesn’t work. I couldn’t try having a snikket account if I wanted to right now.
TBH, I just kind of changed my mind when thinking about this when thinking about snikket. I’m not certain there is a way to make XMPP work as a proper alternative. I should just invest my time into matrix.
I have so many conflicted feelings. But like, does XMPP have a future? I feel like the whole community is suffering from the same issue as IRC. It’s just gonna be for enthusiasts and slowly fizzle away. And then I don’t have to be both on XMPP and matrix.
Right now I just feel conflicted about if it’s worth it to invest my enthusiasm into XMPP.
Can you expand on what makes you think this?
Ah, I’m so conflicted about it though. I like XMPP more, but I’m not a programmer og a data dude. But I’m also not the average joe when it comes to tech and will use things that most people wouldn’t even bother to use because it’s too much hassle or whatever.
But by proper alternative, I mean that it can be used for a wider target group than just enthusiasts and old school people. There needs to be good clients, there needs to be design, branding and communcation work that works for people and can compete with whatsapp and telegram.
But with XMPP I kind of feel that it might be a too big of a stone to roll right. because there are a lot of old school people and there also is a lot of enthusiast level people who are kind of happy with how things are in a way, but there isn’t the momentum needed to achieve what element/matrix has done.
Matrix/element is done so that normal everyday people actually don’t mind trying it and using it.
I understand what you mean. I think that the future is uncertain. Maybe matrix will flourish and xmpp will go under or the other way around. Maybe a third option will develop. For example if suddenly 1bn people join the fediverse and mastodon implements the signal encryption protocol for pm’s it could become the new xmpp/matrix.
I believe that both matrix and xmpp have their strength, but what I personally like about xmpp is that it is very lightweight to host.
I hope xmpp will be modernized, aka have encryption by default, have proper metadata encryption, maybe snikket can send traffic through tor by default or something like that or have their own onion-routing. I think that it is a mistake to implement video calls before having very reliable clients with the features mentioned above. Also mastodon could just ship with a xmpp server, i’d like that. So pm’s are through xmpp by default.
Look into Movim. It is XMPP based and I think once it implements OMEMO e2ee (coming very soon) it will be a real alternative to Matrix/Discord etc.
I keep getting unsubscribed from all the different communities i follow in movim for no obvious reason. I wanna love it, but it is just way to annoying to have to resub every couple of days.
Apparently it might have to do with the kind of server my jabber/xmpp account is on, which is just … great for ease of use for people.
That is likely a problem with different bookmark standards used by different clients. I guess you are using some client other than Movim as well?
I seem to have had the problem without any other clients.
But that problem in itself is fairly annoying as the movim mobile app isnt exactly great imo.
Hmm, odd. I guess some faulty xmpp server module to translate bookmarks standards? Probably a good idea to file a bug report on the Movim github then to see if the issue can be narrowed down.