I've been doing the same, and my efforts are getting increasingly successful.

You are mean. I like that. But how come you mention email, not #DeltaChat 😉 ?

xmpp really does check all the boxes and is mature already. I'm all about Matrix and new efforts but let's not ignore viable solutions that are already available.

@BoosterFive 🚀 XMPP does a good job and is what we call "proven technology", but Matrix does a lot more than what XMPP does. I don't see how XMPP could bridge to other platforms the way Matrix does. Integrating platforms is what Matrix does, XMPP is "only" a platform for chatting.

@BoosterFive 🚀 Matrix isn't so much a piece of software (like Trillian, Pidgin or Element), but a protocol that can be used to transfer messages, no matter what kind of messages. I used Trillian and Pidgin in the past, but they were nothing like Matrix: they were clients with support for a range of protocols.

Matrix itself is not much more than a protocol that allows you to transfer messages, and you can plug all sorts of bridges into it that can encapsulate different protocols in it. The great advantage of that is that your client only needs to be able to speak the Matrix-protocol, not every protocol you would want to use. "One client to rule them all", so to speak.

@BoosterFive 🚀 Setting up a Matrix-server is a bit of work, true. The documentation is there, but it's not always easy to find what you need. You can get a lot of help online though, and I can recommend the "Synapse Admins" room on #Matrix itself: #synapse:matrix.org.

And as a starting point, I can recommend the video Matthew Hodgson made a year ago, about how to do a complete setup with Matrix and #Jitsi from scratch in about an hour:

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