What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet

Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by zaik on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:32PM (#45635535)

Outside of my friend group, no one uses XMPP, the internet standard for chat, they only know about walled gardens and custom protocols by VC startups now :(

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by SunlitCat on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:41PM (#45635590)

Since when became XMPP "the internet standard for chat"? What about IRC[0]? :(

[0]: RFCs 1459, 2810 - 2813, 7194.

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by MYEUHD on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:03PM (#45635786)

Whatsapp, Zoom and Kik Messenger use XMPP under the hood.

Just because it's not well-known doesn't mean it's not widely used

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by betaby on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:15PM (#45635898)

Whatsapp used XMPP many years ago, not today though.

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by alexchantavy on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:34PM (#45636079)

I miss when Facebook Messenger let you connect to it with XMPP back in the day so you could have it together with your other msging services on Adium/Pidgin

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by loeg on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:24PM (#45635984)

XMPP has nothing going for it.

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by lou1306 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:43PM (#45635616)

Come on, of course there will be some protocols that are more obscure than others, but the overall concept of RFCs is far from "forgotten".

Besides, a lot of these walled chat gardens roll their own XMPP/Jabber thingy behind the scenes.

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