Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
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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XMPP.
Came here to say this. Chart could have been as general as email.
Now that we have Matrix? I would have agreed with you in 2010.
Matrix tries to kill XMPP but the reality is that if you want to self-host, XMPP is much less of a hassle. Also, Matrix is an open standard as in "pay big money to participate in the openness". https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/01/funding-matrix-via-the-matrix-org-foundation/
and nearly every client has something that's half baked, and it's funded by a shady UK nonprofit with links to israeli intelligence, and...
Matrix is daaaaamn slow. And not private.
Now when we have Matrix, we also need to deal with rescuing people from a NIH protocol designed around a property nobody needs.