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ixnar · 3346 days ago · link · · parent · post: Everyone's Freaking Out About the Hand in Slack's New Button
Why use a proprietary massaging system when XMPP exists?
It's an unpopular opinion these days when everyone seems to be ditching XMPP, but I'm on your side. We should be spending our time supporting/fixing/extending XMPP instead of splintering the chat-sphere all over again. For a while there we were so close to an interoperable standard.
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Agreed. I just tried to chat with someone and we had to go through a dozen programs just to find one we had in common -- Kik, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Slack, Skype, Hangouts, Telegram, Lync... Even in the early 2000s when I had accounts on three or four chat services it wasn't as bad as all this.