This is indeed excellent and they are currently working hard on making it a nice alternative to Discord.
Our Lemmy instance has been running it as a supplementary service for quite some time now and it is relatively popular with our members: https://movim.slrpnk.net/
It would be nice having native programs. At least you can use any native xmpp app with the same account to do text, audio, and visual comms (including groups). The only thing they don't support is the actual social feeds/posts aspect (and soon spaces!).
Any decent native client (Pidgin, Conversations, Gajim, etc) will cover most of the important stuff, so it might be worth checking who among those might be willing (+ people contributing) to track development after Movim.
Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don't even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I'm reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I'm instantly sold.
Well, to be honest, "Movim" also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it's a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.
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poVoq@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 169d
This is indeed excellent and they are currently working hard on making it a nice alternative to Discord.
Our Lemmy instance has been running it as a supplementary service for quite some time now and it is relatively popular with our members: https://movim.slrpnk.net/
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 169d
PWA app only is a big no sale.
As much as I dislike dedicated apps for things that don't need it, THIS is something that needs it.
mrh@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 169d
It would be nice having native programs. At least you can use any native xmpp app with the same account to do text, audio, and visual comms (including groups). The only thing they don't support is the actual social feeds/posts aspect (and soon spaces!).
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 168d
Any decent native client (Pidgin, Conversations, Gajim, etc) will cover most of the important stuff, so it might be worth checking who among those might be willing (+ people contributing) to track development after Movim.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 5 pts · 168d
Are there bridges to WhatsApp and telegram?
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 168d
Movim has good support for https://slidge.im/ based gateways that include WhatsApp and Telegram.
yessikg@fedia.io · 1 pts · 167d
You have to ask whoever is running the server but it is possible
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 168d
Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don't even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I'm reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I'm instantly sold.
Well, to be honest, "Movim" also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it's a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.