Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox - "Chat Control" update
Can you build tech independence while breaking encryption?
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Why Europe's 'Chat Control' Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children
On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that could effectively dismantle Europe's emerging decentralized messaging ecosystem, and shake the
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Spotify’s Direct Messaging Gambit
Let's analyse why is Spotify launching its new messaging feature and why now?
4 min readXMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again
As new initiatives try to reinvent open messaging, too often starting from scratch, XMPP quietly reasserts itself as a reference protocol for open messaging.
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Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation's open letter to Meta for true interop
As a free and open standard for building and deploying instant messaging systems, XMPP represents the ideal foundation for true messaging interoperability.
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How Big Tech Pulled Off the Billion-User Heist
How large messaging and social platforms hijacked the international phone numbering system—a common good—to build proprietary communication networks that stifle competition.
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Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols — Part 2, Matrix
A Proposal to Simplify and Speed Up Matrix Merge Operations
2 min readMatrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1
For over two decades, ProcessOne has been developing large-scale messaging platforms, powering some of the largest services in the world. Our mission is to build the best messaging back-ends imaginable–an exciting yet complex challenge.
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Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services
I will comment on an interesting article from Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund breaking down the cost of running a large-scale messaging platform.
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