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Daniel Gultsch
@daniel@gultsch.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

The only relevant feature for any instant messaging app (or social app, for that matter) is: Are my friends using it? People will gladly overlook minor inconsistencies or missing features as long as they can communicate with their friends. We shouldn’t recommend #Signal as a stepping stone before Jabber/XMPP becomes "good enough," if goodness is defined by the number of people using it.

#Jabber #XMPP #Conversations_im

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Arne Bleijs
@ableijs@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@daniel
Agree. Signal is not federated, so all of it is subject to the US cloud act.

Any advise about #Matrix?

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Daniel Gultsch
@daniel@gultsch.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ableijs The Matrix ecosystem is primarily dominated by one VC funded company. The server that everyone uses is developed by them. The client that everyone recommends is developed by them.

There are some baby steps towards a slightly more diverse ecosystem but for now it's a toss up between whether that's going to happen and enshittification once the VCs want their money back.

XMPP on the other hand is a healthy diverse ecosystem with various stake holders.

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Daniel Gultsch
@daniel@gultsch.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ableijs I develop a client for Android and I basically can't make any unilateral decisions without involving two client developers (Desktop + iOS) and/or two different server developers from the two major server implementations. And that's a good thing!

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