Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.
Then why isn’t it?! Why is it that the “recommended” client for iOS looks like something from 2005?
That’s like asking why this tractor trailer truck still uses the same old boring shipping containers from 40 years ago.
The reference port is the reference port. When FB did xmpp, Google could read their emoji, for instance. It was a brief window before they both diverged from the standard for enshittification, but in that window it all just worked.
That’s like asking why this tractor trailer truck still uses the same old boring shipping containers from 40 years ago.
My point is that most people in 2025 are expecting a lot more from their communications client than what was available in the “good old days” of Gtalk and FB interoperability, and yet most XMPP advocates just bury their heads in the sand and say “it works for me and does everything I need, so there is no reason to add more features”.
That’s like asking why this tractor trailer truck still uses the same old boring shipping containers from 40 years ago.
The reference port is the reference port. When FB did xmpp, Google could read their emoji, for instance. It was a brief window before they both diverged from the standard for enshittification, but in that window it all just worked.
My point is that most people in 2025 are expecting a lot more from their communications client than what was available in the “good old days” of Gtalk and FB interoperability, and yet most XMPP advocates just bury their heads in the sand and say “it works for me and does everything I need, so there is no reason to add more features”.