It's very possible your social circle is not on XMPP though. There's some light at the end of the tunnel with the EU's Digital Markets Act forcing the large messaging providers to provide interoperability - at a minimum this should enable better bridges between XMPP-based and proprietary systems.
The active GTK clients these days are Dino and Gajim. Pidgin is still around, but has fallen very far behind with regards to features (they're in the middle of a rewrite that will hopefully address this).
It's very possible your social circle is not on XMPP though. There's some light at the end of the tunnel with the EU's Digital Markets Act forcing the large messaging providers to provide interoperability - at a minimum this should enable better bridges between XMPP-based and proprietary systems.
The active GTK clients these days are Dino and Gajim. Pidgin is still around, but has fallen very far behind with regards to features (they're in the middle of a rewrite that will hopefully address this).