Howdy all, What are good recommendations for people to set up a hosted XMPP account?
XMPP <URL:http://xmpp.org/> is an open-specified, federated, standard <URL:http://xmpp.org/xsf/press/2004-10-04.shtml> real-time messaging protocol. Consequently there are numerous free-software XMPP services and clients that can talk with each other. As we discussed briefly at this month's Free Software Melbourne meeting (2013-06-20), Google Talk uses XMPP. But existing accounts are now <URL:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging> being migrated from Google Talk to Google Hangout, which uses a proprietary non-standard protocol and operates only on Google servers. There are no free-software clients, and obviously no services provided by anyone other than Google. So in order for XMPP to continue we need to have clear recommendations for good servers to switch to. What servers are good to recommend to our friends who are Google Talk refugees? -- \ “Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done | `\ for me?” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
