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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait a minute... xmpp is federated? Like I can self host and then still message others?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Other xmpp servers that want to yes. But i have nobody that uses xmpp again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was why matrix was made. Because it's federated... What's the got damn point of matrix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

for a long time, no one was developing android apps for xmpp.