Instant Messaging: It's not about the app - #XMPP provides sovereignty of your communication
Read a comment in this blog post:
https://xmpp.org/2021/01/instant-messaging-its-not-about-the-app/
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability
@xmpp a protocol alone does not allow you to instant message. It requires an app. One that your grandma can use. Xmpp and matrix apps are a very hard sell, even with the most technical crowd.
The author tried to point out some more general thoughts on this discussion. Technology is hard for many people, no doubts. However, no one is helped to blindly switch messengers all the time.
At the end of the article various links has been provided, see this one for example:
https://xmpp.org/getting-started/
Hi,
that sounds a bit strange.
Have you tried to reach out to one of the public chats (MUC):
https://search.jabber.network/search?q=operators
Or a chat of one of the server communitys (ejabberd, OpenFire, Prosody,..)