Hacker News: Zash

New comment by Zash in "The first messenger without user IDs"

Zash — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:14:24 +0000

> we have zero fragmentation so far. some clients implement more features than others

The Matrix spec has many versions and many features. Clients implement and keep up with varying parts of it due to varying reasons usually involving varying amounts of manpower and funding. Same as with XMPP. I don't see the difference.

New comment by Zash in "Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t"

Zash — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:22:15 +0000

Pretty sure I remember the AP spec author saying the whole thing works very much like XMPP. But they couldn't have built on top of XMPP for some unspecified reason.

New comment by Zash in "IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)"

Zash — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 11:29:06 +0000

Pretty sure the client feature parity problem is inherent to open ecosystems with many vendors with varying priorities and budgets. Just look at the web back when there were more browsers in the game, or email clients etc.

New comment by Zash in "Telegram raises $210M through bond sales"

Zash — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:22:44 +0000

XMPP simply does not have enough Hype, it's just boring old technology that keeps working and getting better over time despite lack of funding and startups.

New comment by Zash in "How to Kill a Decentralised Network"

Zash — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:20:37 +0000

But most of all, users care about talking to their friends. You could have all the features and amazing UX but if their friends are using tin cans and wet wire, that's what they will turn to. Network effect trumps all. Features and UX are marketing, which at most can help you bootstrap to the point where network effect kicks in.

New comment by Zash in "Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust"

Zash — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:08:38 +0000

Such a subset exists already: https://xmpp.org/about/compliance-suites/

New comment by Zash in "EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)"

Zash — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:04:33 +0000

XMPP is still around and alive. Have you seen https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/ ? No need to resort to murder.

New comment by Zash in "Dino 0.4 – Message Reactions, Replies and GTK4"

Zash — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:32:07 +0000

Be the change you wish to see in the world ;)

New comment by Zash in "Dino 0.4 – Message Reactions, Replies and GTK4"

Zash — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:17:44 +0000

Congrats on the release! Reactions, replies and mobile Linux support are all features many users have asked for.

New comment by Zash in "What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?"

Zash — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 22:15:45 +0000

Yes, small ones. http://www.snsn.se/map_right.html lists earthquakes in Sweden the last year.

New comment by Zash in "Ask HN: What's on your home server?"

Zash — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:47:08 +0000

DNSSEC-secured DNS with PowerDNS Federated XMPP chat with Prosody Email with Postfix and Dovecot Prometheus keeping track of it all and Grafana to draw some pretty graphs for how it's all going

New comment by Zash in "German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR"

Zash — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:07:08 +0000

Looks like it's based on the established and mature standard XMPP. Not disappointing to me.

New comment by Zash in "Mastodon’s eternal September begins?"

Zash — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:21:32 +0000

I remember it the other way around, Google killed Talk and repeatedly replaced it with non-XMPP things while XMPP survived to this very day!

New comment by Zash in "Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST"

Zash — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:58:24 +0000

But, XMPP is push all by itself already, and works with mobile push notification services where needed.

New comment by Zash in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

Zash — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 14:22:41 +0000

The physical keyboard was certainly nice, especially for a linux sysadmin / programmer. I also miss the camera, the "normal" and familiar Linux environment, the unified messaging (native XMPP support, with A/V calling!). It was sturdy despite the moving (keyboard) parts. Phone experience was decent, certainly better than my current Android, but can't beat my first phone, the Nokia 3310.

New comment by Zash in "“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”"

Zash — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:16:05 +0000

It's XMPP that misses you ;)

New comment by Zash in "Thunderbird 102"

Zash — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:48:31 +0000

> Matrix is the most popular open chat protocol

[citation needed]

New comment by Zash in "Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?"

Zash — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:28:11 +0000

How can XMPP have failed when I and many others use it daily? When many things like Snikket and Zoom and WhatsApp are built on it?

New comment by Zash in "Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe"

Zash — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:58:08 +0000

Maybe the key is network effect and enough marketing to bootstrap it?

New comment by Zash in "Bunny DNS – A scriptable DNS platform"

Zash — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:31:28 +0000

May I interest you in some Lua instead? https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records/index.htm...

I run PowerDNS but haven't found a reason to play with this yet.