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@baseless_discourse The gold standard has always been XMPP. It's the IETF Internet Standard for messaging, no walled gardens, ability to self-host, no phone numbers required and modern clients use the same end-to-end encryption protocol as Signal does.
Is there a community for XMPP? I would like to know what clients people use on iOS. So far I found them all to be pretty insufficient.
@matricaria There is a community around XMPP. Of course you will find most of them in public XMPP channels, but many are also active in the Fediverse/Mastodon. I don't have any Apple devices, but a few of my friends use Monal ( @Monal ) which seems to be the most reliable client on iOS currently.
It's not the same encryption, it's based on the same double ratchet design that's it