Delta Chat aims for “WhatsApp-level” simplicity and these webxdc zips are just called “apps” when regular users interact with them in the Delta Chat app.
This blog post goes a bit more in-depth on what they are, how they work and how you can build one. Which I thought would be interesting for this Technology forum.
Yeah the spec is at https://webxdc.org/ and it is implemented by Delta Chat and a couple XMPP clients.
I don’t use Matrix so I’m not sure.
simple to use
Not sure how to make that simpler
big accounts won’t move over, nor will their followers.
This post is about private messaging, not social media.
They are apps that use a messenger as backend, so basically your conversation with someone else has all the state of the webxdc. In Delta Chat that would be the encrypted email thread.
To use a webxdc share it in any of the mentioned messaging apps.
You can just add the .exe to steam and then they are as plug and play as most other steam games.
I agree
Their advertisement budget is collected by guilt tripping Wikipedia users using the lie that the website would cease if they didn’t ”donate”.
It’s also around the time they did away with their jobs board thing isn’t it? I got a job through it in 2021 and somewhere after that they sunset it, which was an insane business decision because it was the best job search platform out there.
Only if the collateral he put up goes down in value too much
Because it’s a web browser that doesn’t even run natively on my platform
Thank you for reminding me why i don’t watch TV. I don’t want to jump in in the middle of a conversation with zero context when we have on demand content everywhere online nowadays
That website was the fastest loading website I’ve ever visited.