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Thoughts on XMPP/Jabber? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to stop using WhatsApp because I fuckin hate it. Does anyone use XMPP regularly? It allows encryption so I was considering it.

The consideration is whether I will have to self host it or I can use some publicly hosted instances (like how there are open Matrix instances). Also whether it has support for desktop clients that run natively on Loonix without electron.

Please share your thoughts if you have experience. Feel free to suggest other alternatives too. I won't mind that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

That is a bit ironic, because XMPP has for the most of its 20 years existence been only on desktop, and one of the reasons Matrix was started was to offer better mobile support.

But I agree in so far as that in the last few years the focus has been on mobile support, and these days XMPP is definitely top notch on Android (and soonish also on iOS), while most desktop clients have not been maintained very well. But the upcoming 1.4 release of Gajim looks very promising with its basically Discord like new UI and for Windows UWXP is also very nice.