Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Recommendations for video chat on mobile phone

[J.B. Nicholson]

Caleb Herbert wrote:
> Man, XMPP worked great for video and text chat in 2012.  Why did it
> just get dumped suddenly? :(

There's been considerable pressure to drop standards for things we're all 
free to implement and reuse. RSS too is (in the untrustworthy corporate 
tech media) said to be less popular now but undergoing a rediscovery.

I imagine this happens in favor of some futile attempt to make private 
areas of influence and control. Some people readily give into those 
pressures citing a circular popularity argument if they don't give in 
(they'll lose "relevance" or somehow become less popular if they don't 
concede to a publisher/redistributor's power). Principled arguments need 
not apply.

But large audio program distributors don't make it easy to publish RSS 
feeds (some don't publish RSS feeds at all). Such is what happens with a 
largely undereducated populace making decisions based on convenience, price 
(weighed exclusively monetarily), and the perception of popularity 
evaluated in their media bubbles.