Jabber is better than any other IM now
By
Tomasz Sieprawski
on February 01, 2007
Jabber is better than any other IM now, because:
- nearly like e-mail system
- easy addresses (yourname@some.server.org)
- it's decentralized (many servers, many messengers)
- it's secure (communication with ssl/tls, use of gpg encrypting)
- it's free and no ads :)
- it's customizable (if you're programmer, you can make own software for jabber)
- has transparent (you don't even see you're using them) gateways to other networks
- has many nice things (bots, chat rooms, e-mail notifying, world map, dictionaries, file transfer, blogging from messenger and many more)
Do you think the same? Do other Instant Messenging systems (like ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) have better features? Or is Jabber an nearly ideal alternative for them?
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Discussion (4)
I put forward that the people who voted against, do not use dedicated Jabber clients, or not very good ones if they did :)
I think it's more the fact that everyone else they know doesn't use Jabber.
Taken on it's merits alone... Jabber is the best messaging protocol.
"I put forward that the people who voted against, do not use dedicated Jabber clients, or not very good ones if they did :)"
I put forth that jabber doesn't have ALL of the features that are common in AIM, MSN, and YIM. Jabber is only superior if you're an open-source zealot. If you're a real person who likes software that can actually do things, it's inferior
GPG encrypted conversations and OTR are clashing.
I don't like the "noobs use OTR, geeks use GPG" thing. New users think OTR is security, but it's not, it's deniability.