>What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence? That's a wonder... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		nobody9999 on Oct 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to permanently delete your Facebook account >What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence? That's a wonderful idea. In fact, we've had such a standard since 1999 (protocol codified in 2004[0]) It's called XMPP[1] [0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

wtetzner on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

Not only that, but a lot of closed messaging platforms were originally built on XMPP.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact