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Sup is a New Messaging App by the Creator of Pixelfed (wedistribute.org)
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A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as "an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse."

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[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There is this wierd meme that IRC is "outdated" and XMPP is "dead", both of which is completely untrue, but somehow the tech-bro hivemind continues to spout this nonsense when ever the topic comes up.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

AFAIK the most complained about thing with xmpp is that there are so many standards and every server isn't guaranteed to implement them. That and just being old which is no curse but people take that as a negative sometimes.

It's honestly pretty good IMO.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, Ive seen this repeatedly and now Ive been better informed.