>What is XMPP? Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a communication protocol for message-oriented middleware. Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is defined in an open standard and uses an open systems approach of development and application, by which anyone may implement an XMPP service and interoperate with other organizations' implementations. Because XMPP is an open protocol, implementations can be developed using any software license and many server, client, and library implementations are distributed as free and open-source software.
>What client should I use? Get Pix-Art if you are on Android, Gajim or Dino on desktop PC.
>How do I join this Jow Forums groupchat? Here is the link: xmpp:[email protected]?join
Why the hell are there no good desktop clients for this shit? I'm using the Dino crap which is in beta and doesn't support drag-drop for file sharing.
Conversations tries to secretly lock you into their paid service without informing you that there are a billion free providers. It's like being forced to use a paid email service without being told that tutanota, protonmail or even fucking gmail exists.
>Conversations tries to secretly lock you into their paid service without informing you that there are a billion free providers They aren't forcing you do do anything.
Carson Wilson
quit shilling this retarded, disgusting protocol. It's everything that sucks about XML, shoved down your throat as a shittier alternative to IRC.
Parker Martin
you use discord, not irc
Connor Smith
>hurr it's not bad unless you're forced Literally kys. Nobody new to xmpp as an instant messenger would know that it's basically like email and that there are free providers. Conversations, unlike pixart, defaults to a paid service. You can't expect every new user to read a fucking manual and know that they don't have to pay after 6 months of using xmpp.
Jordan Diaz
They can skip it.
Sebastian Myers
And some Linux distros show you "Donate" screen before downloading distro. If normies are so retarded - it's their problem.
It's fucking down wtf. Fix your working server before shilling it you morons.
William Smith
>join the Jow Forums server >not even 30 people in it
Yikes, this is sad, cringe, and lonely.
Adam Walker
What goes on in the chat? Why should I join?
Eli Cruz
>elementary OS Shit distro.
>click this extremely tiny button B-but it's fine since it's open source! Fuck off.
Ian Watson
You should be shilling Riot.im, but you fucked up OP, as usual.
David Stewart
Gajim? Not tui, but maybe you'll like it more
Jacob Flores
>>elementary OS >Shit distro. Not gonna argue with that. But hey, sheeple gotta start somewhere when switching and Arch def not gonna be their first choice. And more users can't be bad for the OS, no matter the distro.
Wyatt Hughes
How bout rocketchat? Obligatory shill link to test out rocket dot beznell dot ooo
Noah Rivera
We already have Riot.im
Noah Garcia
>What goes on in the chat? Why should I join? Jow Forums bros talking, laughing, enjoying themselves.
Jason Cook
>We already have Riot.im Electron app
Gabriel Lewis
Riot sucks though
Joseph Ross
>who actually uses XMPP? Nobody. Face it, it's a epic failure. Yes I was and kind of is a fan of XMPP and I'd like to use pidgin with the OTR plugin for security all the time. I would also like to encrypt all my e-mails with GPG but I don't because GPG is also an epic failure.
XMPP and GPG can't into the network effect. Decades after publishing my GPG key next to my e-mail I still get 0.2% of my e-mails encrypted with it. Nobody ever contacts me using XMPP, when people ask me to use something it's Snapchat or Telegram or eew Skype.
matrix/riot will also probably end up being a failure. it's all "join my discord server" even though it's _their_ server, you don't have one, having a chatroom on someone else's machine which logs everything isn't the same has having your own server.
I hate to sound negative since I'm all for these technologies. But the simple truth is that a communications system only you're using isn't useful. People don't say "I don't want to use snapchat because all my friends are on XMPP".
Leo Ross
incel forum
Matthew Rivera
Then make a non-electron Matrix client
>their server You can make a Matrix server if you want. Server code is open source. You can use Matrix to bridge with whatever proprietary chat service you want so you never have to use the actual telegram/Facebook/whatever apps and can still contact normies.
