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Likely my school/training which did cost a bit but enabled me to create a career.
How do you feel about titan crash?
Do you remember what happened with gtalk and facebook messenger? They both were based on xmpp. After moving away from xmpp (what both did), I didnt have use for xmpp anymore. Honestly, Meta has given me no reason whatsoever in their whole record of existence to earn my trust.
You’re not getting an objective answer to the “did most of the Gtalk/Facebook messenger users even know they were using xmpp, or care?” from lemmy/kbin/fediverse users in 2023, as most here likely do care a wee bit more of the technical and privacy matters than the average joe.
However, I used XMPP personally via integrating it to my irc (weechat+bitlbee) so I could get all the IM services under one interface. I’m doing the same now with Matrix: I have irc, whatsapp, my smart home messages etc all forwarded to matrix.
We also built XMPP chat at our company which I was working for back in the day. I think it was called Jabber back then. Biggest drawback in my opinion was the lack of encryption out of the box - encryption should’ve been more integrated to XMPP from the get go, instead of being an extension.
XMPP/Jabber is once again a thing that could’ve been great for everyone. We could have one singular decentralized technology to IM which would’ve been open to all and interoperable. If approx 20% of the world’s population has a google account and 35% facebook account, at least every third person in the world would’ve been reachable via XMPP. And if it would’ve reached critical mass, it would’ve likely been even bigger.
https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp
Yeah, I’ve not touched whatsapp in years
Those making decisions about this will not approve of this as there is no immediate business benefit to be seen.
Reddit in 2023 is different that the one it was built upon once upon a time. And fuck u/spez
Oh well patientgamers always win.
While I loved the cyberpunk’s premise, idea and atmosphere since the game’s announcement, I sticked to the “no preorders ever” rule and because of reviews decided to just wait them to patch it.
Still haven’t played it, but likely now I can add it to my wishlist and when the time’s right, I’ll try it out.
I’d go see this one.
