• LaggyKar@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Why does it call XMPP “Chat Standard”?

    From the perspective of private users, WhatsApp is the benchmark

    Not entirely, there is also Discord

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      11 months ago

      WhatsApp, Signal, & some others use the same open standardization end-to-end encryption. It’s the bare minimum bar for acceptable (but most of these apps require a primary Android/iOS device to hold the key which plays right into that duopoly as well as making smart phones a requirement rather than optional).

      Discord has no e2ee, many rooms require phone numbers, the service is proprietary, they have trackers, they send cease & desists to projects wanting to be alternate clients. These are not the hallmarks for privacy or security.