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I completely agree. I think the default for messaging / social media should be private. People should have to go out of their way to boost their signal beyond their normal social circle.

I think these protocols should really mirror much more closely how real life works. We already know what works IRL, let’s use that as a starting point and go from there.

Something really unnatural about how public social media works by default.

I wonder if something like Keet messenger would interest you as well (along with signal, matrix)

Btw, it’s been a decade and I still don’t know why matrix is better than xmpp. If anything, we have just learned that xmpp “failed” for reasons totally unrelated to technology or protocol

Nuh 10mo ago

I am not a fan of Holepunch stack and not interested in building using JS dependencies. I also think Iroh is a better tech.

Matrix is better than Xmpp because it does encryption well, it does VoIP well and it does group chat well.

My only two issues with Matrix is 1. no sovereign identity and 2. no general purpose storage .. it could have been like Google Drive. I think that much became clear to proton mail for example.

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τέχνη 10mo ago

I forgot about Iroh! It’s a shame that not many apps use it yet. I heard about it through the Delta Chat blog. I’m going to revisit this. Needs a simple messaging app like Keet tbh.

> Matrix is better than Xmpp because it does encryption well, it does VoIP well and it does group chat well.

I used to think this too, but after using XMPP for myself, I honestly felt lied to. XMPP is more robust, less buggy, more decentralized, and most importantly less bloated. Matrix adding federation (like server sync) is pointless at best and a privacy nightmare at worst.

And a decade later Matrix is still chasing the “emulate discord” vision. I really think it’s just a salary / job security to those people now.