It’s enabled in the nightly builds - finally a way to call a desktop from Conversations

  • roastpotatothief
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    3 years ago

    But why does the world need both?

    Is there an XMPP alternative to Element, and is it potentially a better choice?

    I assumed that XMPP is obsolete or abandonned, so Matrix is the new attempt to make internet messaging work.

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      3 years ago

      But why does the world need both?

      Why does the world need different operating systems? Because different people have different ways of doing things.

      Is there an XMPP alternative to Element, and is it potentially a better choice?

      Yes, I personally feel that XMPP clients generally perform better than Element - whether or not it’s better for you is up to you to decide after trying it out for yourself.

      I assumed that XMPP is obsolete or abandonned, so Matrix is the new attempt to make internet messaging work.

      XMPP is absolutely not abandoned, pretty much every server implementation (ejabberd/prosody/openfire) has made a release this year, and the clients see regular releases.

      Have you considered that Matrix just did their own thing cause they could and they just didn’t like how XMPP was run?