A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat
For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least.
Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not.
Moving to XMPP - using prosody - worked really well for messaging, but the lack of real-time notifications on Sandra’s iPhone was sub-optimal, and the lack of any notifications for incoming XMPP calls on her phone was really undesirable.
I installed Snikket, a self-contained XMPP distribution just over a month ago and, since then, we’ve tried to use that for every call and message.
And we have very nearly succeeded - I can think of only two times where I fell back on using a cellular call instead of an XMPP call:
