Dino is the only xmpp desktop client that doesnt look like its from 2005. Its simple to use, has a clean user interface and every feature you need to chat. The only other viable one is profanity, but thats tui. Hope that the big next update on gajim makes that one usable again.
I use xmpp on a daily basis. And also with “regular” people. There is quicksy.im , which lets people register with their phone number and then they have “<phonenumber>@quicksy.im” as their jabber id. That makes it very accessible to people that want a more “whats app” like experience when it comes to setup.
Matrix and XMPP are fundamentaly different. XMPP is at its core a messaging protocol, where the server primarly functions as the relay(Archiving on server side exists and is widely used though). Matrix is more like a cloud storage for your message, your clients sync with. I currently run both, a matrix and an xmpp server and the resource usage is completely different. You can easily host an xmpp server for 100 people with some bigger rooms on a super small vps, on matrix you can host at max 10 people and preferably no rooms on a vps the same size. So resource usage is very heavy on the matrix side.
One thing that matrix has though is a shiny, feature rich webtech based client, which many people prefer and i get that. Yet they have millions in vc funding to develop such a client, which xmpp doesn’t have.
Dino is the only xmpp desktop client that doesnt look like its from 2005. Its simple to use, has a clean user interface and every feature you need to chat. The only other viable one is profanity, but thats tui. Hope that the big next update on gajim makes that one usable again.
I use xmpp on a daily basis. And also with “regular” people. There is quicksy.im , which lets people register with their phone number and then they have “<phonenumber>@quicksy.im” as their jabber id. That makes it very accessible to people that want a more “whats app” like experience when it comes to setup.
Matrix and XMPP are fundamentaly different. XMPP is at its core a messaging protocol, where the server primarly functions as the relay(Archiving on server side exists and is widely used though). Matrix is more like a cloud storage for your message, your clients sync with. I currently run both, a matrix and an xmpp server and the resource usage is completely different. You can easily host an xmpp server for 100 people with some bigger rooms on a super small vps, on matrix you can host at max 10 people and preferably no rooms on a vps the same size. So resource usage is very heavy on the matrix side. One thing that matrix has though is a shiny, feature rich webtech based client, which many people prefer and i get that. Yet they have millions in vc funding to develop such a client, which xmpp doesn’t have.