No problem, what do you want to know? If you are here, it means that you already understand how federation works, i.e. you need to find a service provider/server on which to create your account, there are several sites to help you with that:
then you’ll end-up with a username like nick@server.tld and the password of your chosing, just like email, just like mastodon/lemmy. You will then log into using a client of your choice, and here as well you have plenty of choice: https://xmpp.org/getting-started/
If you are more of a power-user, I recommend Gajim, if you are on Android, Conversations/Cheogram are safe choices, if you are on i/macOS, siskin/beagleIM are decent, etc
Really it isn’t in practice 😉. And if you want to have a taste of it, are using Android, and want to skip the decision making steps for an onboarding experience like WhatsApp (where a central service discovers your contacts using your phone number), you could just install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.client
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I ask, please expand or provide some entry points for the XMPP for a complete newbie on the subject if you’d be so kind, please and thank you
No problem, what do you want to know? If you are here, it means that you already understand how federation works, i.e. you need to find a service provider/server on which to create your account, there are several sites to help you with that:
https://joinjabber.org/
https://providers.xmpp.net/#providers
then you’ll end-up with a username like nick@server.tld and the password of your chosing, just like email, just like mastodon/lemmy. You will then log into using a client of your choice, and here as well you have plenty of choice: https://xmpp.org/getting-started/
If you are more of a power-user, I recommend Gajim, if you are on Android, Conversations/Cheogram are safe choices, if you are on i/macOS, siskin/beagleIM are decent, etc
thanks, I’ll def check it out, sounds different
Really it isn’t in practice 😉. And if you want to have a taste of it, are using Android, and want to skip the decision making steps for an onboarding experience like WhatsApp (where a central service discovers your contacts using your phone number), you could just install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.client
There are all kinds of options out there 🙂