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What is Jabber?

April 26, 2017jabber

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What is Jabber?

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So what is Jabber? It’s an open source IM protocol which anybody can run a server for, unlike AIM, where AOL owns all of the servers and has complete control over you. The open source community is trying to make Jabber the standard for the industry actually, but Microsoft is pushing for an implementation of the SIMPLE protocol (which itself is not yet a ratified Internet standard) that is not consistent with published specifications [1] [2]. So it’s really important to get people to use Jabber right now! It’s really easy to make an account for Jabber, it should take literally a minute. If you don’t have your own Jabber server, you can just use the public server at jabber.org. You can set this up from within Gaim, an open source, cross-platform IM program that works in both Windows and Linux, and very similar programs work in MacOSX, such as Adium [3]. Download Gaim here: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.