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Another very important thing is some form of free hosting. I used to have my own prosody server a long long time ago. Eventually, I got fed up, since very few
by hobarrera 9y ago
Another very important thing is some form of free hosting.
I used to have my own prosody server a long long time ago. Eventually, I got fed up, since very few people used XMPP. I just got rid of it and barely noticed any difference.
If I had some place where I could register my own user@domain that matches my own email, I'd use it for sure. But shelling out 5-10 USD a month for that isn't worth while, not for me, nor any other early adopter (especially when almost any other IM service is "free").
- ge0rg 9y agoThere are many free community servers, but you can't host your own domain with them. If this is a requirement, you can have a paid hosting for 1€/address/mo at https://account.conversations.im/domain/ https://account.conversations.im/domain/
- hobarrera 9y agoThat's exactly my point; having a paid-for entry barrier is already to high for something lacking adoption. And since JIDs look email-like, people prefer them to BE exactly their email.