There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

  • matcha_addictEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It worked more like true messaging app less than messages store ( unlike matrix ).

    Can you please elaborate this point? I don’t understand what you mean by “true messaging app” and why that would be a bad thing?

    Requirement of permanent tcp ip connection

    Are you sure this is the case? Maybe back in the day, but my understanding is this isn’t true anymore

    useful feature in xmpp ( like message history ) is optional

    Why is user choice a bad thing? There’s a wealth of clients that implement the features you want

    If something doesn’t work in xmpp most people would blame xmpp

    This may not be an important point, but from my experience, people always blame the client and not the underlying protocol. If I face an issue with my browser, I’d likely blame the browser before I blame http.