Me and some friends recently got off of Matrix just cuz it was giving us so many problems and Element is sooooo slow and eats so much ram (I know there are a few other clients but still, not many of them run on OpenBSD :/)
I found out about XMPP and have been liking it a lot and wish it was more popular, at least among ppl who know and care they’re using it lol (it’s secretly everywhere, even a lot of proprietary messaging apps are based on it). There’s wayyy more clients available than for Matrix and it’s just been more reliable ime. The vibe I get is that it’s also more decentralized in practice than the Matrix ecosystem
XMPP also supports end-to-end encryption for messages based on the same Double Ratchet protocol Signal uses, alternatively PGP is also possible to use
If that sounds cool to you, you’re welcome to come join us at pax.in.net :3 I just made a multi-user chat (XMPP chatroom) at [email protected] for any nerds who wanna come say hi hehe
My address on there is [email protected], same for email, can use either if there are any problems
You can find a list of XMPP clients at https://xmpp.org/software
you should watch out for spammers signing up on your server if you enable in band registration
Yeahh, I have notifications for new registrations turned on and all the contacts for abuse (do ppl actually use these on the XMPP network lol) set up. I hope that is enough but I’ll look it up to see what else I can do