Spotify’s Direct Messaging Gambit
Let's analyse why is Spotify launching its new messaging feature and why now?
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🚀 ejabberd 25.08
We are pleased to announce a new ejabberd release: ejabberd 25.08, just a month since the previous one, with support for Matrix Hydra rooms, a few improvements and bugfixes.
7 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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ejabberd 25.07
We are pleased to announce a new ejabberd release: ejabberd 25.07, with three months of work and more than 110 commits to bring new modules, new features, improvements and bugfixes.
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ejabberd 25.04
Just a few weeks after previous release, ejabberd 25.04 is published with an important security fix, several bug fixes and a new API command.
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Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03
In this guide, you'll learn how to send direct messages between Matrix and XMPP users, and even join public Matrix rooms using your favorite XMPP client.
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ejabberd 25.03
We are pleased to announce ejabberd 25.03, a big release with new features and many improvements, as it comes three months and 180 commits after ejabberd 24.12.
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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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