• mrmaplebar@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    Yeah… I hate watching people make the same mistake over and over. I guess we just have to take the lead and build the communities that we need over on Stoat and Matrix.

      • loiakdsf@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 hour ago

        having a tool intended for a purpose doesn’t necessarily mean it fits that description without issues. the xmpp world is filled with a heterogenous plethora of clients of various quality and encryption duct-taped on top of about a third (made up/guesstimated number based on nothing but my gut feeling having gone down that rabbit hole partly). even if i convinced all of my friends to switch, there wpuld be no client for all platforms and learning miltiple programs to use a single protocol is bad UX imho

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        4 hours ago

        It’s a fucking headache and only vaguely is a discord replacement.

        That’s the problem. People want discord. They don’t want something else that does vaguely all the same things as discord.

        They want a 1:1 copy cat with out the parts they hate.

        That is the sole reason xmpp will never catch on with normal users.

        You would need discord to actually fully shutdown entirely and permanently and suddenly. If you want something like xmpp to ever become more then a weird novelty power users use.