@MDT

El cumple medio-oficial de #Jabber/#XMPP es 1999-01-04. #JabberDay 😉

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que el protocolo XMPP, nacido originalmente bajo el nombre de Jabber en 1998, fue diseñado para romper el aislamiento entre los sistemas de mensajería cerrados de finales del siglo XX?

Jeremie Miller creó esta tecnología basada en XML para permitir que diferentes servidores se comunicaran entre sí de forma abierta, similar al funcionamiento del correo electrónico. Antes de su estandarización, servicios como ICQ, MSN Messenger y AIM funcionaban como islas donde los usuarios no podían enviarse recados si no pertenecían a la misma empresa. XMPP introdujo el concepto de pasarelas, que permitía a un solo cliente conectarse a múltiples redes externas mediante una estructura de red descentralizada donde nadie posee el control total del flujo de la información.

En el año 2004, el Grupo de Trabajo de Ingeniería de Internet (IETF) formalizó este conjunto de reglas como un estándar abierto, lo que permitió su adopción en infraestructuras críticas. Debido a su flexibilidad para gestionar la presencia en línea y el intercambio de datos en tiempo real, empresas como Google y Facebook utilizaron XMPP en sus inicios para cimentar sus plataformas de chat antes de decidir cerrar sus ecosistemas a protocolos propietarios. En la actualidad, este sistema sigue siendo la base de redes de comunicación seguras y aplicaciones que priorizan la autonomía del usuario frente a las grandes corporaciones digitales.

• Aetherius Eldritch, periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

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#XMPP #Jabber #SoftwareLibre #Comunicación #Protocolos #Tecnología

#Prav has crossed the 1000 user milestone now!🎉

Many thanks to all of you for the support!

Want to try Prav? Download Prav from F-Droid or Google Play Store now. Learn more at prav.app

#XMPP #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@praveen @prav

I think if you offered a good #XMPP onboarding meaning creating a account, avoiding spam &bots, explaining how to use the account in the myriads of XMPP clients on every platform, handpicking a few and helping the UX of them then you would have success not only users that starts from Prav android app.

I use XMPP since 20 years. There are always features in other services that people would complain not see here.

Problem is quality of clients out there accross all platforms

@tuxicoman @prav We are just offering some hand holding to get started with #xmpp. #Prav is ready for iOS too, but #Apple won't accept it in App Store, so people have to take the longer route of #SideStore. We have started the process of involving the users to prioritize missing pieces in #XMPP apps.

RE: https://todon.nl/@burnoutqueen/116419705967006483

BTW, #DeltaChat has proven to be able to get through "the great firewall". So, a real world example that it is a great encrypted chat alternative and/or backup to #Signal #Matrix & #WhatsApp

Can #XMPP make it through?

#Resilience is an act of #resistance

@joinjabber ooh, that is GREAT to hear! Thanks!

Is there a reason that I should be using #Jabber versus other #XMPP clients?

Thanks to @double_a_runi 's 'how hard can it be attitude' we have fixed a regression in @prav 's contact discovery when we updated our #android app, but did not update the server in sync (both are based on #quicksy).

So with this, we are set to exit beta and consider ourselves stable / Generally Available soon.

If you agree with our mission to make #xmpp mainstream with an experience similar to mainstream messaging apps, consider donating at https://prav.app/donate #prav

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#jabberEl 0.10.5 is now in #Debian unstable!

It's a huge update and does #OMEMO and #OX #encryption.

The inevitable channel about it is here:

xmpp:jabber-el@conference.hmm.st?join

Blog post by maintainer @thanosapollo:

https://thanosapollo.org/posts/emacs-jabber-revival/

It could be the number one #Jabber client for me, as soon as:

- it gets message reactions (planned!)

- incoming A/V calls are signalled like in #profanity

- bugs are solved, that break all send/receive of my main account 😐

#Emacs #XMPP

I've just pushed a new pubsub implementation (basically a reimplementation of SàT/Libervia Pubsub on top of Libervia Backend).

May not sound exciting like that, but it's a major thing for many reasons, I hope that I can find time to blog about that tomorrow.

Also it implements XEP-0496 (Pubsub Node Relationships) and XEP-0499 (Pubsub Extended Discovery) which means node hierarchy, useful for things like forums.

This is context of https://nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMPP/

#Libervia #XMPP #Pubsub #nlnet #ngi0

#XMPP Community

The #Chat of the Future Initiative discusses their spring activities progress today from 7:00 pm CEST!

Topics: Unified promotion material proposals and a new community online event along the XMPP Newsletter release.

https://xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-future-initiative/

#jabber #rtc #messaging #federation

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Idea of the night: Proton's next product should be “Proton Chat,” which would simply be an XMPP account with encryption enabled by default. This could revitalize the protocol while offering a decentralized and interoperable solution.

#XMPP @protonprivacy

@delta @pixelschubsi @adbenitez

I absolutely agree, that "a cross-platform mass-user focused app with a consistent UX across the platforms" is missing desperately in the #Jabber/#XMPP ecosystem.

There are really good clients for Jabber, but none of them fits above description.

AFAIK, both #Snikket/#Borogove by @snikket_im and #Fluux by @ProcessOne try to close that gap.

Still, I prefer the approach of Delta building on #Rust and #Tauri, instead of #Haxe or #Typescript. #YKINMKBYKIOK.

I am very sorry for you to need to cope with this:

the best option for private chatting TODAY when it comes to #security, usability/user-friendly, #resilience, #digitalindependence and #freedom is #DeltaChat a chat app that uses #SMTP + #IMAP at its backbone, not your favorite "perfect" chat protocol, you don't need new better protocols, you need tools that actually work for the people

#xmpp #matrix #simplex #signal

@adbenitez It's easy to say that one doesn't need better protocols after those better protocols have become so ubiquitous that you don't even realize how you're using them yourself.

Apple APNS and Google FCM use #XMPP technology to deliver push messages instantly. All the other messengers listed (#Signal, #Element, #DeltaChat) thus use XMPP technology. Everyone uses XMPP, but when it is about marketing, suddenly XMPP is not necessary.

@pixelschubsi @adbenitez new protocols are fine. The point may rather be that contrary to popular nerd belief protocols are only one part of an effort. What distinguishes #deltachat from #xmpp is that one is a cross-platform mass-user focused app with a consistent UX across the platforms and using standards under the hood, while the other is a set of specs with many different implementations and UX approaches on the various platforms, and sometimes tenuous compatibility between them.

@wuffel

Hab's mal geteilt, auch wenn meine Bubble eher die von #Jabber/#XMPP ist als die von Signal. Aber machne haben ja beides oder nutzen es via Gateway. Bin gespannt, was ob Du was rausfindest.

@phalanx @davidmaddock @lorenzo

There is a tiny trigger in the original post, that is hard to ignore, though: The words "de-bigtech" and Signal together 😉

Signal is (according to themselves) inextricable from AWS and Google. It depends on #bigTech. That shouldn't be an excuse to derail questions, but it needs self-discipline 🙂

That being said, #Jabber/#XMPP might be a solution for the Signal desktop use case, with a (self-hosted?) #slidge gateway. Probably not easy.

https://slidge.im/

#XMPP #ejabberd is 200 the absolute maximum number of occupants that a MUC can have, or can I raise that somehow? #lang_en

@richardwonka @Good_News_Community

Thanks for mentioning Paligram! Never heard of it. Added it to my IM chart:

https://mov.im/blog/debacle/76bf90a4-5f59-4962-92db-6cd859f42ec9

And 👍 to #Jabber/#XMPP, the "fediverse of chat" since 1999 🙂

@Good_News_Community

More trustworthy messaging alternatives:

- https://jami.net/ #jami
- https://github.com/berty #berty
- https://delta.chat/ #deltachat
- anything #xmpp / #jabber like e.g. #monal

(Not evaluated yet: #paligram)

#messenger #messaging #trust #floss #foss #infosec #privacy

@esmie

I never tried a peer-to-peer messaging app. How well does it work with multiple devices? I.e. I have #Jabber/#XMPP both at home and at my workplace. The devices are never switched on at the same time, until I clone myself 🙂 Still, thanks to the (trustworthy, self-hosted) server, all incoming and outgoing messages are synchronized. I wonder, if/how a peer-to-peer IM can do that.

@CafeJunkie Das musst du dem HR schreiben und nicht mir. 🧐 Ich habe den Beitag lediglich geteilt. Aber du hast schon Recht. #Startpage ist in der Tat eine gute Alternative. Beim Messager ist es so eine Sache. Je mehr man die Sicherheit hochschraubt umso unbequemer ist es ja auch. Es geht ja darum einen Ersatz für den Otto Normalverbraucher zu haben. Da bietet Signal einen guten Mittelweg. Für #Conversations #XMPP z.B. braucht man wieder einen eigenen Server, da steigen viele ja direkt aus.

I’m delighted to announce that the OpenPGP implementation in #Conversations_im will see some love over the next ~6 months. Simultaneously, we will be laying the groundwork for OMEMO2 by implementing Stanza Content Encryption.

Thanks to funding from @nlnet and the European Commission.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Conversations-OpenPGP-refresh/

#XMPP #Jabber #OMEMO #OpenPGP

With persistent hard work by @vaidik_ Prav (@prav) is now available on iPhones!

Though with Apple rejecting it from App Store, installing it is a bit involved. You will need to setup http://SideStore.io and then add Prav source https://codeberg.org/prav/website/raw/branch/main/SidestoreiOS.json

#Prav #FreeSoftware #Apple #iOS #iPhone #OpenSource #XMPP

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#XMPP Community

Vier Rezepte zur Nutzung eines offenen #Chat-Protokoll beim ‘Digital Independence Day’ ( #di_day )!

Erstellt von der XMPP Community um Menschen unabhängiges #Messaging zu ermöglichen.

https://di-day.xmpp.link

#conversations #dino #monal #snikket #whatsapp #signal #didit #did

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XMPP Extensions and Specifications (XEP)

Read about the new #XMPP #Extensions and #Specifications changes and updates in March 2026:

https://xmpp.org/2026/04/the-xmpp-newsletter-march-2026/#extensions-and-specifications

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xep #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

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The XMPP Newsletter for March 2026 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2026/04/the-xmpp-newsletter-march-2026/

Enjoy reading! ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter #xep

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#XMPP Community

Join the XMPP #Berlin #Sprint from 19th to 21st of June 2026.
Work side by side with developers from the XMPP community!

More information and registration here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2026-06_Berlin

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #federation #messaging #Germany #development

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Anyone out there that can recommend a good #XMPP / #Jabber client for #iOS that supports multiple accounts and is not Monal?

Bueno ... tenemos servicio de internerd pero detras de un CGNAT ... imposible hacer que #personal mande un técnico, la zona sigue con problemas, asi que esta esta noche nos saltamos el CGNAT y #cyberdelia vuelve ... estamos tratando de solucionar todo con lo que tenemos a mano, sin un mango porque #argentina y coso, limitando los servicios que damos al máximo, dando solo lo más crítico que es #XMPP ... al menos hasta que nos pasen a fibra, esperemos, veremos que nos depara la suerte.