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Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by unicornporn on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:45PM (#19895357)
> Riot works consistently on all OSes while Conversations (in my opinion the best free/federated messenger to date) is available only on Android.

That's my point. Riot works everywhere, without configuration hell. The Android client is getting better and better.

Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by subway on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:40PM (#19896069)
> without configuration hell.

As long as you're a matrix.org user

Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by cyphar on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:49AM (#19897587)
Logging in with @cyphar:cyphar.com works for me. I host my own homeserver so I did have to set it up, but if you are using someone else's homeserver that is all you need to do. The homeserver and identity server information is all provided with the new .well-known/matrix/client support.
Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by Arathorn on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:22AM (#19897408)
if you're not a matrix.org user, you either enter your full mxid to discover your server, or manually enter your homeserver's URL in Advanced. if this isn't working, please yell...
Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by subway on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:28AM (#19899002)
Yelling... repeatedly, both inband and out of band. You never responded last time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19865151

Manually entering homeserver URLs is a non-starter unless you're a technical user.

Re:A free XMPP server powered with green energy by Arathorn on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:08PM (#19900692)
sorry, i missed your response on the other thread; will answer there.