Based on our record, Gajim seems to be a lot more popular than Messenger for Desktop. While we know about 12 links to Gajim, we've tracked only 1 mention of Messenger for Desktop. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I use Opera browser that includes a Messenger extension/app or https://messengerfordesktop.com. Source: over 2 years ago
If you want something that's more of a Slack/Discord alternative, gajim is receiving a lot of attention and polish lately, with Dino and Beagle as simpler alternatives. Source: over 1 year ago
I used Pidgin back in the day of AIM and ICQ, but nowadays, for XMPP, there’s Dino and Gajim for desktop and Conversations.im for Android. As far as I know, OTR has been superseded or replaced by OMEMO in most clients. Source: over 1 year ago
Https://gajim.org/ is a pretty good one. Source: over 1 year ago
You can get a number from jmp.chat and use an app like Gajim (available on Windows/Mac/Linux). Source: about 2 years ago
On the desktop I use the gajim XMPP client. On my phones I use Conversations and Blabber (the latter is a fork of Conversations), and all messages between clients are encrypted with OMEMO. Source: over 2 years ago
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