Every now and then I see the argument that people shut down their XMPP server because they communicate only with a handful of people over it.
This has been the main reason to keep my XMPP server as it is a great way to hook up all kinds of people to chat with me in real time through one of the most secure e2e encryption schemes we have available today.
2-3 people's chat less on the record is still a win imho.
@mulander Yes if the same people use IRC and one is happy with the state of encryption there (or you all agreed on an OTR plugin) then that's perfectly fine.
My use case is getting people to not sending me 'chat mails' or sending me sensitive documents via mail.
@ckeen no one wants to use the otr plugins... and I know like 3 people who are willing to use GPG email with me. No-one also wants to use XMPP.
@ckeen if #XMPP only had usable clients... The only client that is OK for general usage is #Conversations, but it lacks lots of things. Starting with searching in messages history...
@tdemin Yeah that's true but on the other side it does OMEMO well. I would not keep message logs on the phone anyway :)
@ckeen and thinking like this is the main reason folks won't use #XMPP with you. Having a client that does #OMEMO well just isn't enough😉
https://tdemin.github.io/posts/2017-06-07-legacy-and-ux
That's the reason I wrote this post.
@tdemin Do it without if you like then. But all other clients suck with their otr support and the failure modes...being compatible on paper in practise does not help either.
@tdemin That's true.
@ckeen I am considering disabling my XMPP server for the same reason (only 2-3 people to chat with there in past 2 years). It's just another attack vector on my server for a service that is barely alive... all my comms happen on IRC.