For a protocol that's often accused of accumulating vast amounts of metadata, it's surprisingly difficult to determine how many people use #XMPP and which clients they prefer.
The thing is: a network of federating #XMPP servers doesn't accumulate #metadata, it creates a lot of distributed points where the metadata of that point can be intercepted. A little metadata when you only observe the server, a bit more when you control the server. One server is quite easy to analyse. But, because of its distributed nature, observing all of the network is close to impossible.
Winfried 🏳️🌈
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