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Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?

Xmpp seems way easier to host, requiring less resources, has many more options for clients, and is simpler and thus easier to manage and reason about when something goes wrong.

So what's the deal?

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not because you compare Teams to something worse that Teams isn't terrible.

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[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Well, as far as I'm concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn't even close to being that level of bad

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

I agree, but we should always compare to what is better and strive for that. Otherwise we get the situation today where the argument to take a product over another is that it's less bad than the old one

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