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With my recent announcement that I'll be ending my personal Matrix
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service, there comes the added question: what now? For me it is a
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walk down memory lane, to XMPP.
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**Edit 2021 AUG 7:** As much as I enjoyed XMPP back around 2010,
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the application ecosystem has changed a lot and there seems to be
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less support for XMPP now. I'm sorry to report that OMEMO wasn't
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what I expected it to be either, and the major drivers for XMPP,
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to me, was being able to use Irssi or Weechat. That didn't work
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out either and Profanity was disappointing. I'm leaving it with
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that and the fact that you can now again reach me on Matrix.
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[^xep]: A list of the XMPP Extensions (XEP) is maintained at the
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[XMPP Extensions](https://xmpp.org/extensions/) website. There are currently 457
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XEPs.
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XMPP is a universal messaging standard which have been in active
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use for a long time. The same way it is challenging to use with
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different types of sub-standards, called XEPs, it is also a
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wonderful way to work with the ecosystem and different
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purpose-built clients.
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While Matrix was starting to build this ecosystem but had problems
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gaining momentum - especially for the CLI clients, XMPP has had a
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wide variety of support for different clients. Personally I found
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Profanity good.
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For now I just wanted to share some details on how to get in touch
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via Jabber/XMPP after we have exchanged an email introduction via
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my [contact page](https://contact.252.no).
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To get a JID (Jabber ID, [XMPP JID](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6122#section-2.1), you can register at
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e.g. [jabber.no](https://www.jabber.no/registrer-konto/).
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When you have registered an account, and if you do not want a
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permanent presence on the network or do not want a desktop
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messenger, you may login through [converse.js](https://conversejs.org).
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[^xep-0384]: OMEMO, which is equivalent to Matrix encryption is
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defined in [XEP-0384](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html). I am particularly fond of the threat
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model described, the clarity of it. A recommended read.
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If end to end encryption is required for the conversation, which
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would make sense using third party XMPP servers - OMEMO can be
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enabled in converse.js.
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