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I will say that itâs worth being careful: thereâs no option for a backup XMPP account (so your account better have perfect uptime) and I very rarely have incoming phone calls actually work (calling out works, calling in is pretty random, most of the time it doesnât even ring). Also the UI on the client is still pretty bad (especially for group texts, which are almost unusably bad).
All that being said, itâs a great service, just know what youâre getting into before you make it your primary phone number, itâs not nearly as polished as they make it sound.
It only gets full of memes if thatâs the culture you create (I hope we wonât do that, so far it seems like we havenât). And I definitely wouldnât follow everything on a high-volume chat, when youâre on and a topic of discussion youâre into starts or you just feel chatty, then you follow along, otherwise itâs not necessary. But thatâs just how I do chat rooms, YMMV.
Oh nifty, I do this when backpacking to keep rice, noodles, or whatever grains and cereals Iâm carrying dry, but it never occurred to me that folks might do it at home too! What bottles work/look the best I wonder? On the trail I always used Gatorade bottles because theyâre a bit thicker walled.
When people say âkilledâ they obviously donât mean âliterally no one uses itâ. Also no one really cares that Whatsapp or Google are still using it internally. Google did serious damage to the public network and the broader XMPP ecosystem and itâs worth acknowledging and learning from that instead of just complaining that someone wasnât absolutely precise in their language. For all intents and purposes, XMPP is effectively dead to the general public. Letâs try to bring it back to popular use and make sure Google et al. canât do their âembrace, extend, extinguishâ thing again.
TL;DR â please stop being snarky to the OP.
Do you already have a bridge setup and hooked up to your account, eg https://jmp.chat? If you go to add a contact, for instance, it will let you add a phone number and automatically append the bridge address (@cheogram.com in this case)
Iâve been using Cheogram (another Conversations fork that adds features related to telephone dialing and SMS gateways; if you donât use one of those, itâs probably not super useful and Conversations is a better choice). I think itâs only available on F-Droid, sadly: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cheogram.android/
I havenât had a chance to try this yet, but just downloaded the update. The video really makes it look like a unique way to keep track of them, and I canât wait to see if it works!