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XMPP kinda sucks
Yeah. It sucks that the protocol works and everyone can use it. It's the worst.
To be fair, it's also inconvenient convoluted and confusing to non-technical users... So yeah it works and some people can use it and others need their handheld quite a bit to even get halfway.
The same problem matrix as. If you're trying to talk about a discord alternative, you need to aim for the demographic. That is the bottom 50% of the bell curve. If your explanation needs to be longer than two to four sentences on how to use something, then it's already too complicated and will never take off for the use case.
If you're looking for a usable open standard that is reliable, xmpp is incredibly good. It's just not a discord replacement. It's a discord alternative sure. And a good one at that.
But again till the user experience problem can be solved. Like with most open source things they will never be average user friendly.