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For people running a family chat in their #selfhosted #homelab: What is the system with the best mobile experience (both Android and iOS)? I've been using mattermost, but my family is not super excited about it. I'm thinking of running something else instead, but I don't want to test every single platform available

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never really understood why people here push XMPP so hard. It is fragmented as a protocol and lacks mainstream apps and servers.

I think something like Nextcloud Talk or Simplex Chat would be much better

[–] blob42@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's an open and decentralized protocol in the same vein as email. It is the most likely to survive in the longterm as it's not tied to a single entity.

Fragmentation is inevitable in a decentralized protocol. Look at email or http servers, there is no standard mainstream app but a standard extensible protocol, that's how the internet was originally designed to grow. Now that corporations are pushing their own protocols, they have an incentive to lock users in their ecosystem.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

How many people know the ends and outs of the https protocol?

I think that is generally pretty bad for a messaging app