A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.

A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as “an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse.”

    • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      For some weird reason many people just plain ignore the existance of XMPP when they’re discussing decentralized protocols. Is it because Matrix outshadowed it?

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
        11·
        11 months ago

        There is this wierd meme that IRC is “outdated” and XMPP is “dead”, both of which is completely untrue, but somehow the tech-bro hivemind continues to spout this nonsense when ever the topic comes up.

    • Hominine@lemonine.hominine.xyzEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Feels like Jabber has been around for a long time. If I’m not mistaken I remember my buddy pimping it as an AIM alternative back in the Napster/mp3 days.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      XMPP is fantastic, but I feel as though it suffers from half-baked clients, most of which are a decade old and look the part.

      I’d really love to see a “modern” WhatsApp-like take on an XMPP messenger, but I haven’t found any. Admittedly, I haven’t looked in some time.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
        3·
        11 months ago

        Give it another look. The popular Android client Conversations is getting an UI overhaul right now (unreleased), Monal for iOS has also improved a lot, and this is a promising looking take on a Telegram like UI: https://moxxy.org/

        Dino and Gajim also improved a lot on the desktop side. Overall there is some renewed interest by client developers and the Jabber federation is growing again I think.

      • LPS@masto.1146.nohost.me
        1·
        11 months ago

        @deadsuperhero
        I agree, I use xmpp all the time, but the clients are really underwhelming… Not sure how it’s so complicated to give them a facelift to update them while keeping the existing functionality. This reminds me of the debates about the #blender ui in the past, where gray beards argued that the interface was just fine…aesthetics matter;)
        @poVoq