A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.

A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as “an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse.”

    • poVoqA
      11·
      11 months ago

      There is this wierd meme that IRC is “outdated” and XMPP is “dead”, both of which is completely untrue, but somehow the tech-bro hivemind continues to spout this nonsense when ever the topic comes up.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        AFAIK the most complained about thing with xmpp is that there are so many standards and every server isn’t guaranteed to implement them. That and just being old which is no curse but people take that as a negative sometimes.

        It’s honestly pretty good IMO.

        • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
          1·
          11 months ago

          @timbuck2themoon
          > there are so many standards and every server isn’t guaranteed to implement them

          This is just one of dozens of HX fails that leave XMPP unusable for anyone who isn’t ideologically committed to using it.

          (1/2)

          #HX = Human eXperience

          @poVoq @Lucia

          • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
            1·
            11 months ago

            @timbuck2themoon
            Matrix apps are far from perfect, but its dev community at least *care* about improving HX and it shows. In my experience, the XMPP dev community (with a few notable exceptions like the ModernXMPP folks) insist on seeing their HX fails as features not bugs. They expect people to stop expecting 21st century chat apps, and embrace 1990s retro.

            I’ve used XMPP since then (I’m still strypey@jabber.org), and all I can say is, good luck with that.

            (2/2)

            @poVoq @Lucia