Re: ZULIP interop

point of a solid extension is to support federation - which means
decentralisation.  apologies if that was clear as mud.

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 02:06, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:

> Quoting Timothy Holborn (2019-05-23 16:14:21)
> > On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 22:08, Alexandre Bourlier
> > <alexandre.bourlier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We are ourselves working on an XMPP chat, bases on ConverseJS, that
> > > we bridge to the Solid world to get proper notifications and all.
> > >
> > > We are very interested in following the advances on this project,
> > > see a demo or even contribute if we end up convinced it is worth
> > > shifting our efforts towards this lib.
> > >
> >
> > I think it's important to understand that most 'groupware' (meaning
> > tools used by incorporated legal persons, and those affiliated to
> > them) do not use decentralised infrastructure; including (but not
> > exclusive to) W3C.
>
> Interesting you highlight decentralization.
>
> Zulip has some nice features, but is it decentralized?
>
> It is freely licensed code allowing each organisation to create its own
> little communication island, but I failed to locate how it is federated
> and which standardized protocol it uses, with multiple implementations.
>
> I like XMPP, IRC, Matrix, and SIMPLE - each of which having weaknesses
> but share being federated publicly standardized chat protocols with
> plural implementations of both server and client parts.
>
>
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