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by vertex-four 3565 days ago
The XEP which allows all clients that a user has open to actually receive messages has not even been accepted yet. Last Call was supposed to finish on 2015-08-28 - 11 years after the advent of XMPP - and the document hasn't been updated since. Many clients don't support it, including Pidgin, and at least the Prosody.IM server needs a "community module" to enable support for it.

XMPP is a pretty terrible user experience, tbh, and its developer experience isn't a whole lot better.