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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I2P. Current protocols should go through it

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to have an open public SIP address that would ring a home phone, complete with a retro answering machine, but nobody uses SIP...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

XMPP

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I'm interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably it would be better to edit my comment, but I'll go with a reply to myself.

To all fans of RSS: there's this service called FeedBase that is essentially a RSS to NNTP gate. You add your RSS feed to that and it becomes a newsgroup on their server, and you can subscribe to it using any NNTP client. New articles appear as new posts in that newsgroup and you can post your own replies to them. So, you get RSS but with discussions or comments.

https://feedbase.org/

If you try this, let me know what RSS feeds you're reading, so we could read the articles together and have some discussion there!

P.S. This comment is not an ad. I genuinely love feedbase and use that myself.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unified Push.

Unbelievable that we have to rely on Google and co for sth as essential as push messages! Even among the open source community, the adoption is surprisingly limited.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody knows about unifiedpush. Last time I checked, their Linux dbus distributor also wasn't ready. There has to be a unified push to get it adopted.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish the protocol used by Hotline Client took off, it was basically Discord in the 90s with its support for announcement/news posts and file sharing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also KDX. I was too young to use that, but tried and it's cool. Sadly even FOSS clients are all dead and don't build anymore. (I think I had limited success with patching one called Fidelio to build, but that was a few years ago and I can't find any traces of that attempt.)

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

IPv6

I mean, why the hell is IPv4 still a thing??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Try to remember a handful of them

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In the world of computers, why would remembering numbers be the stop for new technologies?

Do you remember anyone's public key? Certificate?

I don't even remember domain (most) names, just Google them or save them as bookmarks or something.

The reason IPv4 still exists is because ISPs benefit from its scarcity. Big ISPs already paid a lot of money to own IPv4 addresses, if they switched to IPv6 that investnywould be worthless.

Try selling static IPv6 addresses as they do now with IPv4. People would laugh at them and just get a free IPv6 address from an ISP that wants to get new users and doesn't charge for it.

The longer ISPs delay the adoption of IPv6, the longer they can milk IPv4 scarcity.