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.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 days 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·
        2 days 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.

        • Goose@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Funny, I have had the opposite experience, As I said in my other post I recommend installing the Flatpak version. I;m not a big plugin user but I have had any problems with the ones I have installed.

          I did try Dino first but didn’t like it, but I don’t recall why anymore - I was just switching from MacOS to Linux at the time.

        • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 days 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·
          2 days 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.