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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 16:09:27 JST feld

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   • Râu Cao ⚡
   • Daniel Gultsch
   @daniel @raucao They prefer iMessage and WhatsApp, the two best XMPP clients
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     Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 16:09:29 JST Daniel Gultsch

     For a protocol that's often accused of accumulating vast amounts of metadata, it's surprisingly difficult to determine how many people use #XMPP and which clients they prefer.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Winfried 🏳️‍🌈 (winfriedtilanus@mastodon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:10:59 JST Winfried 🏳️‍🌈

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     • Daniel Gultsch

     @daniel
     The thing is: a network of federating #XMPP servers doesn't accumulate #metadata, it creates a lot of distributed points where the metadata of that point can be intercepted. A little metadata when you only observe the server, a bit more when you control the server. One server is quite easy to analyse. But, because of its distributed nature, observing all of the network is close to impossible.