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		BarkMore on Feb 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media a... I agree that my previous rant was about nits, but these nits add up and act as a barrier to entry to development in the space. You mention that XMPP is widely implemented on the server, but only a few of the implementations are actually any good. To make matters worse, some of the best server implementations are written in fringe languages (Erlang for example). I think that XMPP would be more successful if it had been more developer friendly.

kwellman on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

Have you looked at telehash (http://www.telehash.org), a much more recent project by the same guy?

I'm impressed by how elegant the protocol is. I hate XMPP, but telehash gives me faith.

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