> When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts
Hah, Google, have multiple messaging systems and bother to merge them?
Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
by davecridland on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:07PM
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And XMPP has always tried to be the email of IM. Similar model, address format, and so on. A sea of independent, autonomous domains openly connecting to each other.
Snail mail too exists. And will exist for quite a while still. About as relevant for personal communications as email.
Email survived because it is adopted as main identity provider, similar for SMS
I've recently been thinking about xmpp making for a great federated identity provider for multiplayer video games. With communication already built in, initialization of peer-to-peer sessions already a common use-case, and the right XEPs it could replace centralized services like steamworks, psn or xbox-live.
And the web of trust still won't work.
When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts, and WhatsApp changes over to a new all-messages-delivered-by-the-NSA protocol, email will still exist.