Fluffy chat is by far the easiest as it behaves more like an Instant Messenger with less focus on groups which is what makes element confusing. There's also much easier key handling and verification across devices. For anyone using a mainstream app like WhatsApp, element is a mess...confusing as hell.
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As someone who uses Element, this is music to my ears. Great install choices too! (Links taken from fluffy.im, I'm just messing around with styling in the post)
This comment proves Web 3.0 is here.
How so?
Comments have download buttons. It is like a mini webpage within comments. Explodes my mind as a millenial who has used the internet for so long.
idk, it's just markdown, that's nothing new.
it's just markdown
Echedenyan looks at the full HTML code without even a Markdown reference (even if are the Markdown engines the ones which provide support for it).
Unfortunate time to comment this. I've realized my error now too, not that it matters.
:^)
Someone made reference and just saw that comment and couldnt prevent myself of commenting on it.
I'm sorry.
Yeah but I have not seen such comments on Reddit, Twitter, Telegram or all these platforms. Maybe it is just my old POV, but I find it fascinating.
As for cross platform, there are Element and FluffyChat. There is also nheko I can recommend for desktop and cinny on web.
If you don't insist on matrix, Snikket might be a good option too.
Yeah. Conversations.im and its sibling quicksy.im (as service+app bundles) are fine for android but not iOS unless you can assist with setup.
Snikket is an effort to create a deployable service+app bundle using a relabelled conversations app on android, something else on iOS, to the end user all appearing as preconfigured coherent bundle. They have plans for whitelabel hosting.
Not sure what snikket has planned for desktop - there's some promising browser based xmpp clients in development.
The new UI for Gajim seems great too
I was about to set up my family on matrix, but XMPP is way easier. Especially if you wanna self host.
Even if it's easy to use, still have to convince them to install something new... You already know that part will be possible?
There is a project that lets you synchronize your XMPP contacts with a CardDAV server like Nextcloud: https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/dav-xmpp-sync
XMPP is not Matrix.
Like everyone is saying, Element. But I wouldn't call it noob-proof in that it would help if you initially set it up and added the people that matter
Not saying Element is the best one, but it is probably best known client for Matrix, with clients for desktop, Android and iOS. When I did my video overview of Matrix at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVsNqH_-9M, I used Element to show it (that may be of use to familiarise your family with what it looks like.