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[–] L_Acacia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Do you use features like permissions, channels, threads, bots, ... a lot ?

Application using xmpp as a backend are great and can be all you need if you just want a simple voice/text chat with no additional features.

There is no equivalent to most "server/community" features of discord in the xmpp protocol, and it is something that needs to be implemented at that level for it to work.

[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

ah we don't really use those features much. as long as we can hang out and chat as a friend group, we're good

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Seems to me that those are generally enabled by bots and scripting, and I don't think it's any harder to do that stuff in XMPP than it is in discord?