It is battle tested, standardized, widely used, have open source servers and apps, end-to-end encryption (OMEMO), self-hostable and are low on ressources and federated / decentralized.

I use it with family and friends. Conversations and blabber.im on android and Gajim on Linux. There’s also apps for windows and Apple.

Curious if anyone here use it and why, why not?

EDIT: Doh. In these Lemmy times I forgot federated. Added.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My colleagues and I had set up a nice self-hosted XMPP server which everyone could use to chat in-house without any of the traffic leaving our network. We had it end-to-end encrypted and it was quick and easy. Then management (with the support of a few employees who like hype) switched us to Slack. It wasn’t private, it wasn’t end-to-end encrypted, all our confidential messages went out to the internet, the boss could technically read anything we wrote, and many people didn’t like the UI. Once management got frustrated with Slack they switched us to Microsoft Teams. After using that for a year, I miss Slack. Teams is a bloated buggy mess with a UI designed to confuse and no privacy, and it also has all the disadvantages of Slack.

    A few of us have secretly switched to Matrix and Element. It’s good. Don’t tell management.

    • kalipike@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      @floofloof I would love to move to Matrix/Element but don’t know a single person who uses it, so it doesn’t seem like it would much benefit me unfortunately. I do still have an account though.

      @privsecfoss

      • Scott@lem.free.as
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        1 year ago

        Install some bridges. I’ve managed to remove all those third party chat apps from my devices and just use Matrix to chat to everyone whether they’re on Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, etc.

        • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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          1 year ago

          Can hyou point me on some good material to learn about them? I’ve been reading about those for years but never crossed a guide…