The world was a better place with Jabber/xmpp where we could setup our messaging system and don't rely on closed systems like we do today as Whatsapp, Telegram, iMessage, etc. iirc Google deprecated support for it in Google voice long time ago which marked its declined
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 23.4 ms ] threadMy understanding is that certbot is part of letsencrypt which is going to eventually make it so you cannot use XMPP certs or did I misunderstand this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950780
https://appriseit.com/services/xmpp/
I have fond memories of IRC channels full of all sorts of bots; the Matrix and XMPP rooms I've seen don't seem to have nearly as many fun automations.