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[โ€“] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wish XMPP became more popular instead...

But it's still great to have an open protocol which allows bridges more easily.

[โ€“] polle@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Me too, sadly most clients are shit. Only conversation on android is quite nice.

[โ€“] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 22 minutes ago

@polle Dino also looks nice. And Gajim fits more at home on XFCE imo. There's also Kaidan for KDE based distros and there was UWPX on Windows (which sadly was discontinued)