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I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?

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[โ€“] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wait a minute... xmpp is federated? Like I can self host and then still message others?

[โ€“] sep@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Other xmpp servers that want to yes. But i have nobody that uses xmpp again.

[โ€“] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was why matrix was made. Because it's federated... What's the got damn point of matrix?

[โ€“] mukt@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

for a long time, no one was developing android apps for xmpp.