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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Heads up for anyone (like me) who isn't already familiar with SimpleX, unfortunately its name makes it impossible to search for unless you already know what it is. I was only able to track it down after a couple frustrating minutes after I added "linux" into the search on a lark.

Anyway it's a chat protocol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am so confused on how simpleX works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

going based on preliminary understanding of this shit, it looks like it does all of the user handling on the client side explicitly, server side probably doesn't do anything of the significant sort.

Or at least to a degree that provides reasonable assurance that X person is different from Y person based on the messaging alone. Though your typing style is going to significantly influence it regardless of that.

probably not accurate, just what i gleaned in about 3 minutes.