> Why put all of this work into running a daemon 24/7 on your phone that will end up sucking battery to run an app with bad usability in peer to peer mode? What's the end goal? I just want to rid myself of Whatsapp and Telegram, is that even a valid use case for the Matrix system anymore? Should I start looking in other directions?
XMPP isn't dead at all. OMEMO offers all the benefits of Signal's double-ratchet encryption and it's supported by at least one good client on every platform. Both ejabberd and Prosody are actively maintained servers, and there are still over a hundred XMPP hosts with open public registration. [And countless other hosts that aren't public.]
And it's way way way faster than Matrix. The servers are lightweight and don't require tens of GB of RAM, and the modern clients (like Dino and Conversations.im) are quick and snappy.
XMPP isn't dead at all. OMEMO offers all the benefits of Signal's double-ratchet encryption and it's supported by at least one good client on every platform. Both ejabberd and Prosody are actively maintained servers, and there are still over a hundred XMPP hosts with open public registration. [And countless other hosts that aren't public.]
And it's way way way faster than Matrix. The servers are lightweight and don't require tens of GB of RAM, and the modern clients (like Dino and Conversations.im) are quick and snappy.