Does anybody have experience with Dino? What do you guys think?
How often do people use XMPP with talking with regular people who don't know what XMPP even is?
How does XMPP compare to Matrix from a regular end user perspective?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2022
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I have Dino installed on my PC, I like it. I wanted to install a XMPP client with OMEMO support and it was a toss-up between Dino and Gajim. Dino won out in the end, because it had fewer dependencies. One thing it doesn't do well (yet?) is chat history. If you're chatting on another app, like Conversations, and Dino isn't open at the time, you won't see the chat history when you open Dino up again.
As for the other questions: I guess never. All of my chat buddies are techies and know what XMPP is. No idea what an average user would think.
I would say that depends on what client you're using, rather than the chat protocol itself. You have intuitive and less-than-intuitive apps for both protocols.
One thing it doesn't do well (yet?) is chat history. If you're chatting on another app, like Conversations, and Dino isn't open at the time, you won't see the chat history when you open Dino up again.
I've been using dino and conversations for the past couple of years, with the conversations.im server, and it seems fine with syncing recent history, even if I haven't had my PC on for a week. Using OMEMO.
Huh. I guess I screwed something up on my end then. I had just assumed that this is something they've yet to implement. I'll take another look when I get home. Thanks for the heads up.
It could also be due to the settings of the server you use.
I have been unsuccessful in getting any of my friends to try XMPP. Nobody wants to leave Discord :(
I really like how Dino looks though! Even though I don't use it (yet), I have it installed on both Linux Mint and OpenBSD.