I’m wondering what XMPP clients people use and what they like about each particular one.

Not that I am looking for one, really just wondering what people like to use. :D

EDIT: Also, more and more people around me are starting to use XMPP, so it is good to learn what to recommend for various use-cases.

  • muppeth@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Gajim on desktop (love the new ui specially workspaces) and monocles (fork of conversations) on mobile. works great for me and apart of my servers hiccups every now and then as far as the clients go, I have no problems with encryption nor voip calls on the phone.

  • kixik@lemmy.ml
    3·
    11 hours ago
    • terminal: profanity (really cool, it became what I regularly use, no audio/video calls though in which case a gui like dino can be used, syncing between the two)
    • gui: dino (there’s a fork called dinox)
    • android: conversations (from f-droid)
  • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    17 hours ago
    <rant aside of this topic>

    I miss KDE Telepathy, and the Empathy framework, and that dream that we could have had IM fully and seamlessly integrated in our desktop environments.

    Fuck Whatsapp. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Zuckerberg. Mainstream IM of today is complete shit.

    • erebion@news.erebion.euOPEnglish
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Thanks for your rant, you’re absolutely right.

      Now, regarding the original question, what is good? Celebrate the great technology you use! :)

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        17 hours ago

        During the Covid-19 pandemic I was very happy to use Conversations for video calls. Quality seemed better than with Signal during that time, and with Conversations you could resize the video window if you needed to do something on your phone during the call. I was not sure Signal could do that in these days. I also like Dino IM on the desktop but lately I don’t have any other people I know who can be bothered to use XMPP over Signal or email.

        There’s a Dino fork https://dinox.handwerker.jetzt/ I’m not sure what to think about it, it looks too fancy and I dislike the Most secure part but it claims to do calls better than the original Dino IM.

        • streetcoder@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          17 hours ago

          Yes, I’m on Dino too because it just works great and video is quite stable in combination with Conversations and of course it supports Omemo.

          Before that I used Gajim but had to compile it myself and sometimes issues with plugins. Maybe it’s as easy as Dino nowadays.

          • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            Before that I used Gajim but had to compile it myself and sometimes issues with plugins. Maybe it’s as easy as Dino nowadays.

            I’ve used Gajim last week for testing and installing it with Flatpak was easy. And I think I remember that for OMEMO no extra plugins were needed with Gajim.

          • erebion@news.erebion.euOPEnglish
            4·
            17 hours ago

            Nowaydays XMPP uses OMEMO. It’s what Signal uses, but made to work with XMPP and with a different name for legal reasons.

            OTR is not what you should use nowadays, it’s been broken.

            XMPP hasn’t been very mobile friendly around a decade ago, which has in large part been due to OTR, which only works with two devices and both have to be online. Also, there hasn’t really been support for offline message storage.

            A lot of other things have improved and nowadays XMPP is pretty much the most battery friendly option out there and Conversations can even be a UnifiedPush provider. Which makes sense as both Google’s and Apple’s push implementations are based on XMPP, so we know it works well.

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    8·
    17 hours ago

    On Linux, I really like Dino, because it’s one of the few clients that played nice with OMEMO. I use XMPP on my PC and on my phone and that seemed to trip some clients up.

    I also liked Gajim on Windows for much the same reasons, but this was years ago, I imagine it’s pretty good now, too.