A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.

A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as “an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse.”

  • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    XMPP is fantastic, but I feel as though it suffers from half-baked clients, most of which are a decade old and look the part.

    I’d really love to see a “modern” WhatsApp-like take on an XMPP messenger, but I haven’t found any. Admittedly, I haven’t looked in some time.

    • LPS
      1•2 years ago

      @deadsuperhero
      I agree, I use xmpp all the time, but the clients are really underwhelming… Not sure how it’s so complicated to give them a facelift to update them while keeping the existing functionality. This reminds me of the debates about the #blender ui in the past, where gray beards argued that the interface was just fine…aesthetics matter;)
      @poVoq

        • LPS
          1•2 years ago

          @Samsy
          I’ll need to take a look, I haven’t used k9 in ages

            • LPS
              1•2 years ago

              @Samsy
              Wow, you were right very nice. Amazing what a little polish can do.

              Another app that transformed with UI updates is gajim, the desktop xmpp client.

    • poVoq
      5•2 years ago

      Give it another look. The popular Android client Conversations is getting an UI overhaul right now (unreleased), Monal for iOS has also improved a lot, and this is a promising looking take on a Telegram like UI: https://moxxy.org/

      Dino and Gajim also improved a lot on the desktop side. Overall there is some renewed interest by client developers and the Jabber federation is growing again I think.

      • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        That’s really great news! I’ll look into those. 😁