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Empathy vs XMPP

A side-by-side look at Empathy and XMPP. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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XMPP

XMPP

Social & Communications

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is an open standard communication protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML. It enables the near-real-time exchange of data between any two or more network entities.

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