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Co-editor of the 'Snipette' online publication. Also codes when he gets a break from #writing. He/him. #xmpp #python #perl #xubuntu #linux #programming [bridged from fosstodon.org/@badrihippo on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]
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[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for "eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tmsnp2h5ractctem5t6yn7qs/bafkreiacipefrh5r2lh46hpgdepiktrn3zrohar7z25xeay4rax2tldewq)
