Re:Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal
by rcxdude on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:10AM
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It's a fundamentally different approach. You could in theory build it on top of XMPP, but it wouldn't actually interoperate sensibly, so what's the point?
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Re:Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal
by lapinot on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:39AM
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> It's a fundamentally different approach.
Is it? (genuinely curious) Can't one see the matrix server-server state synchronization protocol as a transport layer for MAM archives? And pubsub nodes in XMPP are very matrix-room-like. This could be an XMPP extension allowing to multi-home pubsub nodes.
Also, there are recent matrix proposals [*] for representing several things (groups and user profiles) as rooms. Given the analogy room=pubsub, the user-profile-as-room seems to be the same thing as XMPP's PEP (used to share personal data, like public keys or avatar). And the group-as-room would be the MIX proposal.
[*] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177...