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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by paulryanrogers on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:45PM (#38649071)
A brief period (~2008-2015) when XMPP had momentum and federation was trendy, if incomplete.

Apps like Trillian, Pidgin (Gaim), Adium actually allowed chatting across many platforms on the client side. To some extent they still can, with add-ons.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by nextos on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:30PM (#38649501)
This was a great time, and I indeed miss XMPP, with proper federation to lots of different servers, including Google Talk, and Jingle videocalls!

Modern XMPP is really great, Conversations is a fantastic client, supports E2E encryption, is open source, and makes minimal use of resources.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by stavros on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:03PM (#38649762)
But there's nobody on it :(
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by mcpeepants on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:23PM (#38649442)
Trillian was a fantastic piece of software
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by sroussey on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#38649344)
So did iMessage back then.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by kuschku on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:25AM (#38652475)
That's precisely what the primary Beeper Cloud and the old Element One product are for. Just connect to your Signal, Discord, Facebook, WhatsApp, iMessage accounts and chat with all of them in one single app.

Beeper Cloud and Element One do this through matrix bridges, but Beeper has been trying to move this entirely into the client again, which is what Beeper Mini is an experiment for.

If Beeper Mini succeeds, it'll soon also support Signal, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. If Apple succeeds, messaging will remain fragmented.

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