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There are good clients. Whatsapp, Grindr, Kik, League of Legends, Fortnight, Eve Online. They have something in common though: not letting users communicate o

There are good clients. Whatsapp, Grindr, Kik, League of Legends, Fortnight, Eve Online. They have something in common though: not letting users communicate outside their own ecosystems.

zaik 2y ago
Good clients which let users communicate outside their own ecosystems: Gajim, Dino, Conversations, Monal, Movim, ...
rkallos 2y ago
For what it's worth, Grindr's chat hasn't been powered by XMPP since April 2024.
- ptman 2y ago
  Please elaborate. Why? What is it using now?
  - rkallos 2y ago
    They switched to microservices written in Kotlin, resembling the rest of their backend stack. They had an easier time hiring and retaining Kotlin developers than Erlang/Elixir developers.