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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by joe_the_user on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:34PM (#25817804)
It seems like things like Jabber and Signal are going to become more and more prevalent as Facebook and other suppress voices outside the mainstream ... in an entirely ham-hand fashion.

The thing I miss with non-facebook stuff is threaded discussion. Earlier comment just get lost.

Is there an XMPP client with threaded discussion?

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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by codetrotter on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:48PM (#25818264)
Seems like there are extensions for threaded discussions.

For example, the following XEP (XMPP Extension) talks about best practices for message threads:

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0201.html

And XEP-0085 about chat state notifications has a section about threads.

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0085.html#bizrules-threads

So probably your best bet is to look at the list of supported features of all XMPP clients and see which ones support XEP-0085, and then between any clients that support that see if they support threading.

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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by joe_the_user on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:59PM (#25825896)
Yeah, I saw that and I've looked for clients and features but it's really quite difficult to discover them.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by m-p-3 on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:39AM (#25821643)
What about Matrix? It has E2EE and you can "quote" a previous message to provide context in a crowded discussion.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by joe_the_user on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:58PM (#25825891)
You can quote on signal too but quoting isn't sufficient, it doesn't give you a list of subtopic branching from a single topic. You want a UI something HN or the Facebook feed for coherent discussion imo. Twitter, even, is insufficient - we can see how terrible Twitter is anything like in-depth discussion.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by approxim8ion on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:50PM (#25825808)
From what I've read, Matrix servers are significantly harder to run compared to XMPP.
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