New life for XMPP. Build your own decentralized messenger!
The idea of building decentralized messenger run by users, not corporations, is not new. But the process of building it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time. But what if we take the old good XMPP protocol, which has everything already implemented for us?
That's not "real P2P", you may argue, for using XMPP one needs to have a server running with a registered domain name. Yes, but we can run our server software on a local host and use virtual I2P network for connecting with other servers. I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) allows us to use virtual .i2p address instead of a real domain name, plus it gives us advanced protection against illegal dragnet surveillance.
That way we have:
- Hybrid P2P messenger, which can be run both on end-user devices and on high-performance server infrastructure.
- Features which many of "real P2P" messengers miss: offline message delivery …