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Deep dives on real-time messaging, open protocols, distributed systems, and the engineering decisions behind software that runs at scale.
Introducing Fluux Messenger: A Modern XMPP Client Born from a Holiday Coding Session
Open source is about scratching your own itch.
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🚀 ejabberd 26.01
We are pleased to announce ejabberd 26.01. This release addresses real operational pain points: export your data from one database backend and import it into another, and let your users invite others without opening the gates to spam.
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On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
A quick look at Signal's new end-to-end encryption protocol.
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Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat
Good news for anyone building messaging infrastructure in Europe: Denmark's Council presidency is abandoning mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material
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AI Bots Can't Use WhatsApp Anymore. So... Who Are They Going to Talk To?
Meta just banned third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp. Discord raised its capacity to welcome them. Two platforms, two strategies, and a choice that will determine whether AI agents can talk across platforms for the next two decades.
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🚀 ejabberd 25.10
We are pleased to announce a new ejabberd release: ejabberd 25.10, two months after the previous one, including several bugfixes, and many improvements for administrators and developers.
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