The OMEMO dev’s push to get many clients to drop OTR support has seriously fragmented the XMPP world :(

It seems like there must be a modern client that supports both OTR and OMEMO, but, I haven’t found one.

    • Arthur BesseOP
      2•2 years ago

      jackline and coyim are two XMPP+OTR clients that are actively maintained/developed, and last I checked there were still some others (plus numerous more that are not being maintained but are still widely used). it looks like the former is open to adding OMEMO while the latter is opposed to it.

      in any case there are many people still using OTR on a daily basis; I know people that use separate accounts and clients to talk to their OTR and OMEMO contacts.

        • Arthur BesseOP
          3•2 years ago

          it’s the network effect; if you know a bunch of people using OTR and you switch to something that doesn’t support it then you can’t talk to those people anymore.

          When OTR support started going away (as a result of the campaign against it by the OMEMO guy) a lot of people stopped using XMPP rather than adopt one of the OMEMO clients that existed at the time. (In the pre-omemo days xmpp+otr was my primary means of daily communication; today I hardly ever use xmpp at all anymore. 😞)

          I am pretty dissatisfied with all of the messaging solutions that are popular today, so I’m thinking about giving OMEMO another shot… but asking around I’m realizing that I actually still might know more OTR users than OMEMO users! (hence the question in this post.)