Have you tried Nheko? I switched to XMPP some time ago, but when I used matrix Nheko was my goto. Also gomuks is another choice, runs in terminal
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Why the switch to XMPP btw?
Better native client support for the most part, but xmpp servers also show themselves better (faster, more stable...) than matrix.org I think more matrix users should consider using smaller instances tbh
Thanks for sharing, I’ll check out XMPP too - last time I checked was 10 years ago :D probably a lot has changed
I look forward to the day that Synapse is deprecated in favor of Dendrite or Conduit.
neochat has been my go to
I was using NeoChat for a while, but IIRC it doesn't support encrypted historical messages, so you'd have to get it set up and keep element around for searching history...
NeoChat has the benefit of supporting OIDC which my server uses exclusively, otherwise I would have given Fractal a look as well.
i am currently testing https://iamb.chat/ it's a bit unique in how it does things but promising of you're into TUI and vim
If you are an Emacs user, then I suggest you try out Ement.el!
Emacs is such a weird Texteditor i must say.
Try gomuks. It's cli written in go. Highly configurable and if your terminal supports images, it'll show them too.
This client is cool! Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks. I'm halfway through installing all of you people's recommendations. I'm a bit disappointed in the way encryption is handled in matrix. I'm again running into issues. gomuks gives me its fingerprint but element doesn't do that kind of verification any more. Guess I have to try more client until I find one that combines all kinds of verifications and I can get encryption set up and connected between them.
There's matrix-cli, but i don't know anything about it.
Cinny on the desktop.
I don't think it will meet all your requirements (besides being light-weight), but I've been using weechat-matrix for a week and it's been fine. Without this, I wouldn't use matrix at all.
The matrix website has an extensive list of matrix clients out there. Idk why this question is still asked when the answer is very easily found.