multiple times per day I see someone on this website asking "can anyone recommend a good xmpp client?" and I successfully resist replying "no. nobody can. because there isn't one"
@dwarf@8@anime_reference Get real friends /j. I've pretty much forced all my flesh-and-blood friends that if they want to talk to me over the internet (synchronously), they have to do it through an XMPP client. Otherwise, they can only talk to me in real life. It's as simple as that. :gowonaasidesimple: :yeojinaasidesimple:
@gabi@8@anime_reference sadly most of my flesh-and-blood friends, despite working in IT, are turbonormies who have never heard of things that aren't telegram/WhatsApp/discord :yujincringe:
@dwarf@8@anime_reference The solution I found for that is to impose this condition: if you want to talk to me synchronously, do it through an XMPP client. Otherwise, don't talk to me over the internet, because either I won't respond or I'll do so with lower priority. Man, I don't even have a smartphone capable of running Discord without chatting becoming an unbearable experience. That's what I mean by priority, you know? I'm not always at home to be able to check Discord messages all the time. BUT, that only applies to my real-life friends, obviously.
It's not that hard, I just told them to download F-Droid and then Conversations. Okay, are you going to excuse yourself by saying you can't do that? Tell them to lend you their phone for 5 minutes, and that's it. :gowonaasidesimple:
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