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1. pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 15:17:18 UTC pettter ✅
   PSA: there's a federated, well-known and well-implemented federated chat protocol out there with many working server and client implementations. It's called XMPP. 
   
   Use it or be prepared to remake the same billion mistakes that has already been made.
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   • pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 18:56:31 UTC pettter ✅

     • rubah
     @rubah All of them, probably. Discord and Slack are proprietary and centralized solutions, so I wouldn't generally recommend them for use unless there are features you need.
     
     This particular post was mostly prompted by Matrix complaints, though, and other folks talking about creating a new federated chat protocol because Matrix is so shit.
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   • pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 12-Apr-2018 04:52:02 UTC pettter ✅

     • data punk
     @spudboy Mostly their inability to commit to any sort of standard, making alternative implementations more or less impossible.
     
     Also droves and droves of NIH.
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