Why are all (two) federated instant messaging protocols so complex?

Like 21 Aug 2022 at 4:15 | Open on mastodon.social

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I also REALLY hate how both of them want servers to expose the lists of users' connected clients to the outside world. Matrix does it supposedly for e2e encryption. XMPP does it for no good reason.

21 Aug 2022 at 4:41 | Open on mastodon.social

kaip :xmpp: :archlinux:

@grishka Modern XMPP clients also expose it for the OMEMO devicelist (e2ee).

21 Aug 2022 at 5:16 | Open on social.tchncs.de

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