Comment on About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoSo which do you advocate?
Comment on About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoSo which do you advocate?
Zyratoxx@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
For XMPP I my favourite messenger is “Monocles” because it is the most advanced and on Linux it is “Dino” for the same reason. “Movim” (a web client) has a nice touch to it by having a small microblog added to it but it doesn’t support encryption so not something I’d use for important stuff. “Kaidan” is another promising Desktop client but it doesn’t have encryption and group chats yet.
For Matrix I use FluffyChat & Commet on Android and Cinny & Commet on Desktop. FluffyChat is kept in a more traditional messenger layout whilst Cinny and especially Commet take inspiration from Discord. The backside of Commet is that it can be laggy/buggy due to being in an alpha version state but overall for me it is useable whilst Cinny is more stable but doesn’t have voice chat yet. (all other previous examples - XMPP examples included - have at least some form of voice chat even if some only have 1 to 1 calls or have hid the feature as “experimental” in the settings (FluffyChat)).
Other examples I’d like to mention are Nheko since it is liked by some peops I chat with and even Element/Schildi are worth mentioning since they technically offer the most features and aim for a more Slack like appearance. But they are also the solution that get’s pumped with money from their “partners”.