Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
by bawolff on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:01AM
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> Matrix is a nice protocol but at the end of the day it's biggest differentiator with XMPP is using HTTP and JSON for transport.
I feel like people overstate the benefit of this. You can make easy to implement protocols on top of http, json or whatever, or you can make hard ones. They are tools like any other. They don't magically make things easy in and of themselves, its all in how you use them.
I feel like people overstate the benefit of this. You can make easy to implement protocols on top of http, json or whatever, or you can make hard ones. They are tools like any other. They don't magically make things easy in and of themselves, its all in how you use them.