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What’s Richard Stallman’s dream social network? XMPP! (simplifiedprivacy.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HappyKitten@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Richard Stallman had a dream where you control your computing. And XMPP is the closest social network in line with Richard Stallman’s vision of the internet. This instant message protocol, allows for you to easily host your own server, it’s fast and efficient, and has lots of different open source clients to choose from. Additionally, by making it extensible, it allows for anyone to build upon it to get their own desired features. This article goes over some of the basics of XMPP: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/xmpp-decentralized-signal-get-your-own-social-network/

Note: There are no affiliate links or sales text in this educational article discussing open source. Let’s discuss the technology and not attack the author.

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[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well he's on Mastodon so I guess that's your answer.

Why would we attack the author? That seems like an oddly specific request that makes me oddly suspicious of the author, if anything.

[–] EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because there's sales text in the "educational" article.

You should use an XMPP server that respects your privacy. If you truly want privacy and don’t want to trust any server, we recommend setting up your own server. If this beyond your technical interests then we can setup a server for you and hand over the passwords. If we setup a server for you, then you’d pick the domain name and get complete control over who can use it.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I was kind of being rhetorical there, I thought that would be enough to draw attention to what's going on. Also a new Lemmy account that exclusively links to one unknown website is a big red flag.