On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 16:26, Michael Thomas <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do the unwashed masses use anything that supports inter-provider like
xmpp or sip for texting? As far as I can tell that ship sailed ages ago
with facebook, whatsapp and all of the rest.
Well, WhatsApp, Zoom, and various others are either XMPP or a bastard child of it, but no, few of them choose to enable any kind of inter-provider (ie, federation). But that's not a technical limitation, it's a business one.
Dave.
