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by cvwright 2669 days ago
The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies. If that's what you want, by all means keep XMPP and be happy with it.
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> The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies.

The blind person that told me about how much better Gopher was than the modern web for blind people was not a techie, and I don't think it is moral to treat disabilities as just a "niche."

No offense to the blind, but their rest of us do want funky graphics, emojis and cat gifs.
Gopher support rich media, it just doesn't double as a client side application platform like the modern web does.