• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I love XMPP, but I can’t recommend it as a reliable alternative to Signal. I find that encrypted communication is hit or miss with it. I had a problem just this week with it. I got a message delivered to a dormant Movim account I use, and I received it in my mobile xmpp app, Cheogram. I received it fine, I replied once fine. I went to send another message and it failed. I went to Movim in my browser, logged in to my account and was able to send. This is pretty typical in my experience-- some kind of mismatch or failure to negotiate between clients.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry to hear. I’ve been using omemo (e2ee) without a single message lost since… perhaps 5 years ? I also don’t use movim (I don’t trust its model and level of stability/maturity, especially with regards to doing e2ee in the browser). I would not recommend “XMPP via Movim” either.

      Edit: a word

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        1 year ago

        I don’t really use Movim either. I set up an account some years ago while testing different federated social networks. However, I have had that same type of issue with more ‘normal’ xmpp chats. It seems to me that the development is a bit too fragmented. I am hoping for continued improvements though :)