Same type of thing, though in my experience it's been worse overall. Element has their "Element" app with basically all the features across platforms - or you can use one of the many third-party apps that provide a different experience and generally only implemented some of the features. In XMPP land, they don't have a flagship app. Instead, they just have the hodgepodge of independent developers making different apps for different platforms, who each only implemented some of the features.
Group chats are pretty weird in it no matter which apps you use.
XMPP was the messaging protocol used defacto back in the 2010s. It's a federated platform much like Lemmy but the base protocol itself is very simple so it relies on protocol extensions developed by the community. Not all clients sport the same features and not all hosts allow the same things.
An easy start into XMPP is to use the Conversations client in Android which lets you sign up gratis to conversations xmpp domain. It is available free of charge on F-Droid but you can support the devs using the Google Play version. On GNU/Linux there aren't too many XMPP clients but the best ones are Gajim, Dino, and Converse.js
Element is the matrix client built by the Matrix devs. Matrix dot org has some special features like using Jitsi for video conferencing calls etc.
Is xmpp like element type thing? Should I try it
Same type of thing, though in my experience it's been worse overall. Element has their "Element" app with basically all the features across platforms - or you can use one of the many third-party apps that provide a different experience and generally only implemented some of the features. In XMPP land, they don't have a flagship app. Instead, they just have the hodgepodge of independent developers making different apps for different platforms, who each only implemented some of the features.
Group chats are pretty weird in it no matter which apps you use.
Some people love it. I think it's mid.
Oh damn. I did see a bunch of apps for it. Element has a decent selection. I don't know I just wanna have backup if telegram becomes more unusable.
XMPP was the messaging protocol used defacto back in the 2010s. It's a federated platform much like Lemmy but the base protocol itself is very simple so it relies on protocol extensions developed by the community. Not all clients sport the same features and not all hosts allow the same things.
An easy start into XMPP is to use the Conversations client in Android which lets you sign up gratis to conversations xmpp domain. It is available free of charge on F-Droid but you can support the devs using the Google Play version. On GNU/Linux there aren't too many XMPP clients but the best ones are Gajim, Dino, and Converse.js
Element is the matrix client built by the Matrix devs. Matrix dot org has some special features like using Jitsi for video conferencing calls etc.
I have seen the fdroid app yeah. I guess I will try these and see.