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Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) by asah on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:06PM (#42763883)
What about realtime+mobile chat ?

Mastodon and RCS are lightyears from consolidating X/whatsapp/messenger/telegram/signal/discord/slack/teams/etc.

Email+notifications is a joke, lacking groups features, true undo, large attachments and video codecs, etc.

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Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) by Zak on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:14PM (#42764294)
XMPP has existed since 1999, but has only seen mainstream adoption inside walled garden apps that never supported federation or shut it off early on. It was possible to use Facebook and Google chat from a generic XMPP client for a long time.
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Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) by asah on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:09AM (#42767434)
XMPP leaked the features that drove these other apps to win - not the same.
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Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) by fsflover on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:47AM (#42768677)
> What about realtime+mobile chat ?

https://matrix.org

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Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) by numpad0 on Monday January 20, 2025 @09:43AM (#42769198)
See, the discontinuity is at the App Store and mobile shift. It was iPhone and App Store that destroyed equal human right to code and run, turning it into elite privilege to profit by code. And the escape hatch known as the Web is slowly closing.
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