Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhatsApp is working on cross-platform messagingwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down17
arrow-up161arrow-down1external-linkWhatsApp is working on cross-platform messagingwww.theverge.comBri Guy @sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarecbarrick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·1 year agoI really hope the industry settles on Matrix as the standard chat protocol. SMS and MMS suck. RCS sucks less, but it’s still inherently tied to your SIM. Matrix is what instant messaging should be. But I’d settle for XMPP…
minus-squareDerin@lemmy.beru.colinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoIf we settle for XMPP, then we’ll be stuck with situations like: “Hey, I sent you XYZ, did you get it?” “Nah, my server doesn’t implement that protocol” etc. Matrix works so well, wish we could just settle on that and be done with it.
minus-squareKnusper@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoWhatsApp uses (a variation of) XMPP under the hood… https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/#projects-using-xmpp-based-instant-messaging
minus-squareHurlingDurling@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoMatrix? EDIT: Holy shit this is cool! https://matrix.org/
minus-squareHidingCat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoMan, I remember a time when XMPP worked. That was a glorious but short period.
I really hope the industry settles on Matrix as the standard chat protocol.
SMS and MMS suck. RCS sucks less, but it’s still inherently tied to your SIM.
Matrix is what instant messaging should be. But I’d settle for XMPP…
If we settle for XMPP, then we’ll be stuck with situations like: “Hey, I sent you XYZ, did you get it?” “Nah, my server doesn’t implement that protocol” etc.
Matrix works so well, wish we could just settle on that and be done with it.
WhatsApp uses (a variation of) XMPP under the hood…
https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/#projects-using-xmpp-based-instant-messaging
Matrix?
EDIT: Holy shit this is cool! https://matrix.org/
Man, I remember a time when XMPP worked. That was a glorious but short period.
I think XMPP would be better.