It is battle tested, standardized, widely used, have open source servers and apps, end-to-end encryption (OMEMO), self-hostable and are low on ressources and federated / decentralized.
I use it with family and friends. Conversations and blabber.im on android and Gajim on Linux. There’s also apps for windows and Apple.
Curious if anyone here use it and why, why not?
EDIT: Doh. In these Lemmy times I forgot federated. Added.
I see someone hasn’t used Microsoft Teams.
Or hipchat
Hipchat is XMPP. I used to connect to it in Pidgin.
I wish I knew that when we used it. I was using their client and it wasnt great. Slack was a welcome change when we switched