Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

More implementations of standard protocols is always nice!

I see no reason for me to change from my beloved https://prosody.im/ which is more than lightweight enough already. But having options is nice, and standards only make sense when there are several implementations of them.

AGENTS.md on a standard protocol. Sorry but no. You either understand the thing or you don’t.

It’s a chat protocol. Something that is supposed to be very private and secure. Seeing an AGENT.md file is a huge turn-off there, sorry to say. Feel free to burn my karma down to oblivion.

I remember when jabber was cool and there used to be public gateways to icq and what not.

Looks like matrix is in this niche now.

I don't think the server space needs any innovation, current servers are very good.

What we do need are clients that are palateable to the masses. Something on desktop with the polish of Conversations. That's what will really drive adoption from people. I think a big part of Matrix being so popular versus XMPP is that they had a stronger unified client set that looked modern was appealing to many people.

All the widely deployed XMPP servers support a great number of XEPs. The perceived fragmentation of the XMPP ecosystem is mostly a client problem.

Check out Tuwunel too https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel for a Matrix implementation in Rust

This vibe coded slop is driving me nuts!

I saw some coding harness (OMP i think?) labeling sub-agent comms as "IRC" for the agents to use. XMPP is another one I bet AI would just understand what to use it for. I have been absorbing whether tried-and-true old tech like these are going to revive in the AI era, just because it's "locked in" in the training data. AI is going to keep some of these torches burning forever maybe.

Don't really get the hype over Rust... I, personally, like C more. It would be much more smarter to make another server on simple and clean C, rather than using a language that already has a big toolchain and also compiles longer.

Any elaboration on the name?

Nice work ortuman!!

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author here! thanks for the interest. :)

if anyone has questions about the motivation behind building this, feel free to ask.

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