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by aero-glide2 1635 days ago
I was suprised to learn WhatsApp uses XMPP. Would be nice if all popular chat applications are interoperable.
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BlueTemplar 1635 days ago
"Is based on" rather than "uses" - AFAIK they deliberately broke compatibility ?

(Ditto with Facebook Messenger and at least one of the Google chats ?)

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pmlnr 1635 days ago
FB uses MQTT; Google chats, who knows.
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