Post #2016421
2026-02-09 20:02 UTC
@zeank @Quasit @rootschange correct me if I am wrong but AFAIK IRC and Jabber are open, you can self host etc, *but* they are not federated, every server sits on its own and you can only communicate with other people on the same server. Federated describes a completely different axis from open.
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@zeank@mastodon.social 2026-02-09 20:09
@illogical_me @Quasit @rootschange both IRC and Jabber/XMPP are federated. I’m not sure how „open“ federation on IRC is though, if you can participate federation with your own private server. I rather doubt it. But it’s perfectly fine and a wanted use case on the XMPP network. It existed long before what is now called the fediverse. Depending on your definition, XMPP can be seen as part of the fediverse. But it has nothing in common with the ActivityPub protocol.