It was of course always free on F-Droid, but this is welcome news for onboarding less technically inclined people to xmpp.

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/2232241

I do not disclose email addresses anymore. Friends who want to reach me must use something else, like XMPP.

This arrangement works well enough but there is a snag. Tech-challenged folks often receive an email and they want to forward it to me. But email apps and XMPP apps are in separate bubbles.

In principle, the email app should have a “forward to xmpp” feature. But even if that were to exist (does it?), the low-tech demographic likely uses whatever web app Google pushes, which would not likely have such a feature.

So it seems a email→XMPP gateway is needed. I find this. That’s not a service. It’s kind of like: go build something. Is that where we are? Is that the state of the art?

It will probably take some time before I'll get around setting up and testing the new SFU component on our Movim instance here on SLRPNK.

The long awaited MUC support is coming next according to the devs 😍

I've probably made 4 account's on different providers and all of them are always either not recognized on my clients, or always in a "connecting" loop. I'm working on creating my own server using Openfire but that's going to be a while since I can get everything setup and ready.

What providers are there that are stable and recommended to use? I'm sorry if this gets asked a lot, I'm just wondering if this is a common XMPP issue or if it's an issue on my side.

Update: It seems that the issue was that i had some sort of aggressive DNS block list active on my VPN by accident, disabiling that seems to have fixed everything.

We updated on https://movim.slrpnk.net/ but it is still using the old container setup which is problematic with images. Hopefully we will find the time to redo that soon as well.

But need more motivation than I have...

Also I want some Android OS opensource client for that.

My OSes are Debian, Gentoo, software on them Docker, Apache, Postgres, certbot and some more, the clients are Firefox and Dino.

I already have whatsapp installed, which keeps me connected. Plus delta chat is really helpful.

I don't know what xmpp is or how it works.