I’m with you, I love Matrix as a concept but the experience of actually running it was a major headache for me.

I’d love to contribute to those projects but anyone that’s read through my repo for this will see I’m not that good. It took me a long ass time to figure out end to end encryption and those projects are built on it. 😅

I also feel like they fit a different niche, at least matrix does, I’m not too familiar with XMPP. I’ve said in other replies, I’m not looking to make something that’s infinitely scalable or federates with other services, just a relatively simple chat app that someone can have running for their group of gamer friends. If it can do text/voice/screen share with minimal setup/fuss/external dependencies then I’m a happy boy. I kinda had this idea in my head that I’d like to get it to the point where you can upload a tar.gz to cheapo web hosting, untar, follow the setup wizard and have comms ready to go without having to mess around in config files and what not.