Huh, for some reason I assumed XMPP didn’t support video chat. Does it also support screen sharing or do you need a fake input and send it as regular webcam video?
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surpador@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Seconding the XMPP reccomendation- I run Prosody, which has been rock solid and stays up even when other services I run go down. File sharing, E2EE, reactions, voice and video calls- everything you’d expect from a modern messenger. Cheogram or Conversations are great Android clients, and Monal is the iOS client I’d reccomend.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Mio@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
What do you use for desktop?
surpador@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I use Gajim on Windows and Linux, Dino when I need to call, and Monal on Mac. XMPP is older and less trendy at the moment, and it’s a large, partially fragmented ecosystem- that might hold back mainstream adoption. But it’s the horse I’d bet on long-term.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Monal (on a mac)
Marketing, sadly , actually works… plus network-effects