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by netsharc 257 days ago
Maybe for friends and family? But then, if their phone might be compromised by the state...

And telling friends and family they need to setup a Jabber connection to talk you will make you "That guy/girl who...". And if the idea spreads, then talking to n people requires n accounts on n servers. At least Pidgin (last time I used it, which was last decade) supports such a configuration. I wonder if the mobile apps can do the same.

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> And if the idea spreads, then talking to n people requires n accounts on n servers.

No, it doesn't.

XMPP is like E-Mail and Matrix a protocol which supports federation, i.e. a protocol which specifies how many service providers can cooperate, specifically forward messages to other service providers to reach their users.