Does Friendica for instances, have something like Facebook Messenger going on? What would be the best for real time communication on both phone and desktop?
Messengers are the archetypal example of software that has to deal with the network effect. IMO we don’t have the luxury of trying and using lots of FOSS messengers and never picking a winner. At some point there has to be only one left if we want anyone to use it.
The frontrunner candidate is Matrix.
I wouldn’t care if I had to use multiple messanger apps. There used to be a pc program that let you login to msn, irc, and yahoo messanger all at once and manage your accounts in one place.
Pidgin… which still exists
Holy moly, I didn’t know that Pidgin is open-source! Maybe I’ll reconsider it…
Matrix or XMPP. Personally I’d go with Matrix. World’s on fire and Matrix is encrypted by default.
XMPP, all modern clients support OMEMo E2E encryption out of the box. Works on all platforms.
Sup is one. It’s from the dev of Pixelfed. Unlike the other non-fediverse platforms the others mentioned here (XMPP and Matrix), it will use the ActivityPub protocol and will be E2EE.
sounds like a vanity project has half his name and should that man really be spreading himself more thin, is loops even federated
Frankly, I don’t like dansup and his cocky behaviour. But if Sup ever does become reality, then it will be a real alternative. And no, Loops is not federated.
