I’ll have to look into those and see how their features compare to Discord. A lot of people are looking for things that can can do group/individual video chat, group/individual voice chat, offline messages, guilds/spaces, etc…
You gotta decide if you want FOSS or compromise at every step just so you get comfort…
XMPP is developed by mostly lone devs on free time or sometimes small grants, comparisons with VC/Angel funded commercial projects make me mad/sad, hence my “tone” above.
The posts above read to me like what user aral on Fediverse once posted:
– Where’s your easy-to-use, plug-and-play, ethical alternative to these toxic trillion-dollar products?
– Thanks for asking. We’ve been paying out of pocket for years to work on it. Fancy giving us a few million to speed it up?
– No.
– How about a few thousand so we don’t starve?
– No. So, is it ready yet?
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