This year I discovered XMPP and want to try it. This looks very cool on terms of privacy to communicate with other people, but I almost know nothing about it.
Which are the best public servers?
Anyone experienced it? What are your thoughts about it? You like it? Let me know what you think.
It is really hard to use after reading all the related manual, so I never even bothered with setting up an account.
It's not, i've got two non-tech friends on my private instance, biggest issue was me nuking wrong folder on server. You just need a good client, i go with Dino for desktop and monocles chat for android. My non-techies are mobile-only and i and my techy friend are on Dino on desktop, only feature it lacked is group calls which i've monkeypached with a feature for my bot that generates Jitsi invites.
I'd like to second Snikket - it's designed for this use case and is very simple to set up.
If you'd rather not use Snikket, check out these recommendations for clients and servers.
Hope it works for you! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
I've found active small XMPP communities before, so I know they are there, but the client can't seem to find these niche communities. The communities with most members almost don't chat about current topics or interesting things. They have a lot of people but no conversation, just like some Discord communities.
