via @nivex
The state of mobile XMPP in 2016
https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
XMPP is a federated chat protocol which has been around for a long time and has a reputation of being bad on mobile devices, e.g. due to unstable connections. Apparently it has come a long way though.
But honestly, the handling of multiple devices when I also want end-to-end encryption is what made me use it less and less. :(
@NerdResa @feli It does seem the problem is being worked on: https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
@NerdResa Mhh, yes. The desktop clients were lagging behind, that's true.
According to this website Pidgin now supports OMEMO: https://omemo.top
@LottieVixen @feli @NerdResa wait, what? irssi supports xmpp? without stuff like bitlbee?
@feli @NerdResa And get all your contacts using it. Being relatively new, most of the widely deployed clients don't have modules for it yet. I've got one contact who won't give up on OTR despite my making them repeat themselves every time a message ends up on the wrong device and is thus indecipherable.
@feli Mhh I know it's possible in principle, but I think my desktop client (Pidgin) didn't support it at the time, no clue if it does now...
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