Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ? Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough to make people switch to, that won't have issues and send them running back to zucc

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[–] algernon@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have an unfederated XMPP server (running Prosody), family's using Conversations (Android) & Dino (Linux) with it. We can chat, send images, do voice & video calls. Has been working fine & reliably for the past ~6 years or so. Took about 1.5 minutes for them to get used to the clients.

I'm slowly opening it up for friends too, so friends, neighbours, classmates, etc can chat with us too. It's going great so far, no complaints.

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've managed to screw up every self-hosted service whenever I've made an update, edit a config file or just by looking at it. But my Prosody XMPP server? It's rock solid. That thing never fails, for years and years.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i just wish there was a prosody docker that allows for all the tweaks and addons. snikket was relatively simple to get going, but they don't provide a lot of info for adjustments

[–] algernon@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, setting the server up was a bit of an adventure. But I did that once, and it's been serving us well since. My users saw none of that.