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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

XMPP is very old

Seriously? That's your argument? So is the wheel.

They elaborated how that relates; usage scenario changed with mobile phones. XMPP is a bad match.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

XMPP is a bad match.

The X is for extensible, so are a whole bunch of other protocols and people haven't stopped using them, they get improved upon (for the most part).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The mentioned permanent tcp ip connection (which you don't neccessarily have on mobile) too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression XEP-0060 solves that.

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

Sorry, i won't read that whole thing. But i guess you're right, in which case i take back what i said.