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Using messaging protocols (XMPP, Matrix, etc) for federated social media vs. ActivityPub?

From a practical sense, ActivityPub may be the obvious choice as it gives easier interop with the largest federated platforms.

But what else? There are existing platforms built on these protocols, such as movim for xmpp, and another for matrix I forget.

From a technical standpoint, are there any major pros and cons?

halm ,
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another for matrix I forget

If you or anybody else reading should remember the project, I’d be interested in hearing more.

Flax_vert ,

Email works well and is federated

LodeMike ,

Matrix is too hefty. XMPP is stateless sort of. ActivityPub just works.

matcha_addict OP ,

From my understanding developers often complain about activityPub. Can we really say that it “just works”? Federation and interop issues are common as well.

LodeMike ,

It works better than anything else.

matcha_addict OP ,

It may seem so due to its success, but I’d argue its success was more tied to luck and timing than technical superiority.

Mastodon was growing and “new” during the period of the decline of social media, and specifically during several moments of Twitter having issues with moderation, and later on acquisition by musk.

Similarly to lemmy, the Reddit third party API fiasco.

I don’t think this means that it works better than anything else. It was just the most obvious choice to users at the time.

rglullis ,
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XMPP had social media even before ActivityPub existed.

LodeMike ,

And?

rglullis ,
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And… that if “activitypub just works” , so does XMPP.

And… XMPP servers offer better performance and taking less resources than any of the leading AP projects.

And… XMPP already has E2EE.

LodeMike ,

And what do you do about other clients? What happens when the user wants to clear messages on the server when they’re fetched, but doesn’t want to do that for the social network rooms? What about moderation.

XMPP is good at a very specific thing and I don’t think its users would like all the necesary changes.

rglullis ,
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None of your questions are about the protocol, but implementation details of the application.

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