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0 pointsryukafalz4y ago0 comments

Easy, on some clients/with some servers. These days they do it the same way as most other platforms, by uploading the media to a web server. It took the ecosystem a while to catch up to that though, and there are plenty of clients out there that still don’t support it.

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zaik4y ago

> there are plenty of clients out there that still don’t support it

Which ones don't?

ryukafalzOP4y ago

Pidgin on Windows, for one. And even on other platforms you have to compile and install the third-party plugin for it yourself, it doesn’t ship with Pidgin - this is beyond what I would expect most users to do. (I imagine the same is true for Adium as they’re both libpurple clients, but I don’t have a Mac handy to check.)

Those two alone are the clients that most Windows/Mac XMPP users I know reach for first, probably out of familiarity.

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