@ariadne @lynn and yet Element manages to be clunkier than most XMPP chat apps I tried
I stopped using XMPP because there was no E2E encryption, no history replication over multiple devices (hell, *just* using multiple devices was broken af), and file transfer was so broken I still remember that bzip2|base64 starts with Qlp...
in 2015 it was a shit protocol with moderately ok clients. then the last person i knew who used XMPP switched to Telegram