Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?), plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

My team recently tried RocketChat, but E2EE is obviously an afterthought for that project as it has even more limitations than non-Element Matrix clients (no searching, no pinning, no file upload, no edit, etc.). Plus Jitsi integration seems to be buggy right now (at least on my Windows installation).

What else is out there that’s not on my radar? Is Matrix with Element really the best option right now? Is there no project that puts E2EE above all else?

Edit: Should be self-hostable and (FL)OSS.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    8 months ago

    XMPP is old and has many clients. I think ejabberd is still the go-to server solution, but I haven’t kept up to date since switching to Matrix. Prosody also seems popular?

    I’ve heard good things about Conversations as a client app for Android. I’ve seen Dino recommended a lot as a desktop application.

    It’s hard to say what client serves your purpose best because there are hundreds of extensions to XMPP that have to do with all kinds of things, from “keeping the same history between devices” (which wasn’t in the original protocol!) to “use XMPP as a notification backend for third party apps” and “PubSub social media”. Check out https://xmpp.org/software/ for a list of the most common apps.

    You’ll want to make sure to pick a client with modern (OMEMO) encryption support for the best interoperability with other people.