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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn't there from day one and mind you it's intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema

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[–] belochka@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

I suppose. NOSTR-based Marmot is being developed now, it seems more interesting for me than XMPP or Matrix, but it's still a new thing.

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

i doubt that any national comms authority will want to have anything in common with nostr. big point of this thing seems to be that it's on-prem (or at least in country) and with tightly controlled access

other countries already use matrix for similar purposes (france, germany, estonia) army had their own deployment on similar terms (on-prem, controlled registration)

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[–] belochka@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You can have controlled registration and authorized relays with Nostr too.

But the part where deploying Matrix is simple is, I suppose, the main reason.

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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe. Or they got the feeling to use a low-effort open protocol, that isn’t xmpp. I mean, they considered open whisper, for example, they would have to invest in a custom client.

With matrix they slap a new sticker on the software and call it a day.