Snikket (open standard XMPP instant messaging) has achieved XMPP account portability to move users between XMPP hosts
Popular messaging apps today are designed so that all your messages and data flow through the provider of the app. The companies that provide these apps are in the perfect position to track everyone’s messages and contacts.
Snikket (and other XMPP hosts) is different. The Snikket network is instead made of lots of smaller independent services that can all communicate with each other. Together they form a large messaging network with nobody in the middle. Every person in the network can choose to use a Snikket service provided by someone they trust – this could be an organisation or simply a technical friend or family member!
“Thanks to our work during the first phase of our DAPSI-funded project, there now exist formats, protocols and tools that allow users to migrate their entire account and contact list between XMPP services without losing touch with their contacts.”
This migrator has already been successfully used by users migrating away from the Germany-based Blabber.im messaging service, which held around 7000 active users and announced its intent to shut down at the end of June 2021. Using our migration tool, people were able to export their account data and move to alternative services before the Blabber.im service shut down in July 2021.
“Through this work we aim to make account migration not only possible, but easy and accessible to all users at all times.”
See https://dapsi.ngi.eu/success-story-snikket-the-future-of-online-communication-is-open/
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source https://gadgeteer.co.za/snikket-open-standard-xmpp-instant-messaging-has-achieved-xmpp-account-portability-to-move-users-between-xmpp-hosts/
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