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Blog Post Argues Signal's Usability Flaws Fuel Case for XMPP Adoption

A blogger recounts frustrations with Signal, including missing message-edit support until late 2023, unreliable notifications, broken Do Not Disturb call handling, and inconsistent emoji rendering, despite the app's praised encryption and open-source status. The piece uses these gripes to pivot into a broader discussion of why XMPP struggles for adoption compared to alternatives like Matrix, which offers a single documented client implementation versus XMPP's fragmented extension ecosystem.

gultsch.de · 2026-09-14

XMPP marks 25 years as a model for decentralized, sovereign messaging infrastructure

The open Jabber/XMPP protocol is celebrating a quarter-century of existence, having been designed from the start as a federated, non-proprietary alternative to closed messaging platforms. The piece uses this anniversary to argue that digital services should be treated as infrastructure owned collectively, rather than left to corporate or single-nation control.

gultsch.de · 2026-08-24