A quick primer on XMPP & how/why you should host your own server for low-resource-usage, encrypted chat & other pubsub server.
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“Denshi explains the basics of XMPP: The future of decentralized messaging.” > finally someone that actually understands what they’re saying. Matrix is questionable open-source and privacy disaster, XMPP is tested, reliable, secure and above all a truly open standard and decentralized it just lacks some investment in better mobile clients.
What people fail to see is that XMPP is the only solution that treats messaging and video like email: just provide an address and the servers and clients will cooperate with each other in order to maintain a conversation. Everything else is just an attempt at yet another vendor lock-in.
This is why I don’t trust Rich Communication Services (RCS) being developed by the big tech giants. I can almost guarantee it’s meant to meet minimum legal requirements otherwise Google, Facebook, et al. would have reverted their services to XMPP federation on a protocol with now even more years of battle testing.
Great presentation! I didn’t know I could make video calls on xmpp …none the xmpp apps I downloaded have the option to call my wife’s account…is this a server enabled feature?
I think you need a TURN/STUN server connected
Video? Is it my app or did you share the wrong link?
Good catch! The Lemmy UI isn’t straightforward. I thought I needed to upload a separate image for the post—not that you choose between URL vs. image despite the UI seemingly allowing both. Fixed!
