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Anyone having luck talking to people through XMPP Audio/Video with an opensource client?

It's ironic that Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, AOL, Google et al. use XMPP in one or the other proprietary form.

It's opensource, many awesome clients are available and yet people still choose possibly backdoored and definitely monitored and text-mined closed-source solutions. I don't understand why the usage of the open solutions is so low. Can someone explain?

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Since Google dropped Jabber server federation, open XMPP are less useful.

And, for voice/video, getting them to work through NAT is a pain, while Skype JustWorks™. Plus, it is a really good solution: I can change my connection from WiFi to cable, and the video recovers within a few seconds.

That said, I'd love it if everyone ditched propietary solutions. But, unless you really care about privacy and freedom, it's a hard choice to make.

I tried switching to Jit.si last month. After a week or so, I went back to Skype. Very poor audio and dropped calls.

Get someone in there to completely strip the UI, increase the audio quality, and I'm there. Paid user.

Good to know, I'm not alone with that experience then. All of my clients already have XMPP, but there is no good CrossPlatform Client, that JustWorks™. Which is sad. But maybe something new will replace this, for example WebRTC is on the way.

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