My laptop is getting old and i can’t have Element eat up half of my RAM. There are many more clients out there but which one is good? aka "the best? ;-)

My requirements: lightweight, encryption 100% supported, active development/community. runs neatly 24/7 in the background.

Should also support the latest features, let me customize when to get notifications: priorities / muted chatrooms. And ideally also look clean and run on the Pinephone. But that’s optional.

I don’t care which desktop environment or cli.

What do you use?

  • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.org
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    1 year ago

    Better native client support for the most part, but xmpp servers also show themselves better (faster, more stable…) than matrix.org I think more matrix users should consider using smaller instances tbh

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing, I’ll check out XMPP too - last time I checked was 10 years ago :D probably a lot has changed

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      1 year ago

      I look forward to the day that Synapse is deprecated in favor of Dendrite or Conduit.