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Hello. I am looking for an alternative to Telegram and I prefer an application that uses decentralised servers. My question is: why is the xmpp+omemo protocol not recommended on websites when it is open source and decentralised? The privacyguides.org website does not list xmpp+omemo as a recommended messaging service. Nor does this website include it in its comparison of private messaging services.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/assets/img/cover/real-time-communication.webp

Why do you think xmpp and its messaging clients such as Conversations, Movim, Gajim, etc. do not appear in these guides?

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 days ago

    It runs like shit, at least when I tried it. Never heard of Continuwuity, will looks into it thanks.

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Its the rebirth of Conduit -> Conduwuit -> Continuwuity. Built with rust, it’s a community project that is pretty stable and finally free of drama.

      • onlooker@lemmy.ml
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Wait a sec, I run Conduit on my test machine and seems fine so far. What drama did I miss?

        • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
          4·
          17 hours ago

          Conduit has been dead in development for years now. Conduwuit was the successor, then some drama got it shut down and reborn (new maintainers) as Continuwuity.

          Conduit saw no up grades in years IIRC and its basically abandoned I guess.

          • onlooker@lemmy.ml
            3·
            16 hours ago

            Thanks for explaining. But unless I’m missing something, Conduit doesn’t seem to be quite dead just yet. I got upgrade notifications throughout 2025, the latest two being in December; one for v0.10.10 and the other for v0.10.11.