56
What XMPP clients do you like and why?
(news.erebion.eu)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
56 points (95.2% liked)
Linux
57274 readers
392 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
During the Covid-19 pandemic I was very happy to use Conversations for video calls. Quality seemed better than with Signal during that time, and with Conversations you could resize the video window if you needed to do something on your phone during the call. I was not sure Signal could do that in these days. I also like Dino IM on the desktop but lately I don't have any other people I know who can be bothered to use XMPP over Signal or email.
There's a Dino fork https://dinox.handwerker.jetzt/ I'm not sure what to think about it, it looks too fancy and I dislike the Most secure part but it claims to do calls better than the original Dino IM.
Don't worry about having people to talk to, XMPP is going through a renaissance!
😀
Yes, I'm on Dino too because it just works great and video is quite stable in combination with Conversations and of course it supports Omemo.
Before that I used Gajim but had to compile it myself and sometimes issues with plugins. Maybe it's as easy as Dino nowadays.
Funny, I have had the opposite experience, As I said in my other post I recommend installing the Flatpak version. I;m not a big plugin user but I have had any problems with the ones I have installed.
I did try Dino first but didn't like it, but I don't recall why anymore - I was just switching from MacOS to Linux at the time.
I've used Gajim last week for testing and installing it with Flatpak was easy. And I think I remember that for OMEMO no extra plugins were needed with Gajim.