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    1 year ago

    I wonder why Matrix is being so well received by the community over XMPP which has been around for years and is also federated.

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      1 year ago

      Bridges is a big advantage it offers. So if you already have a community it allows you to move people over slowly while not loosing those that are completely against trying out a new platform.

      And Google dropping support for it in 2013 really hurt XMPP.

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t know that feature. So, if I understood it well, if you have a Slack community you could move your people to Matrix with no pain. Sounds really good.

        Anyway, I just cannot understand why the fact that Google dropped support for XMPP could hurt it that much. I’m not possitioning myself, I just cannot understand. That’s all.

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          1 year ago

          Same reason iMessage dominates iPhones. Proprietary lock in as a vendor makes transitioning regular people very hard. After years of everyone on Android/Gmail being able to talk with people that used XMPP were suddenly cut off.