Imo Matrix has the huge advantage of being decentralised.

Absolutely!

Thank you very much! 🩵

Ya I heard of the attacks on chat.blahaj.zone, the bigots are relentless. Hopefully blocking becomes smoother.

Most big FOSS projects have a dedicated matrix room at this point, so if you are invested in one you could check that out. But in reality i have barely used public rooms despite using matrix for many years now. I just use it to replace all other messengers i used before. It used to be quite janky but its been getting and will continue to get more and more stable and reliable.

To answer your question, there is this https://matrixrooms.info/ which is often recommended by the matrix devs. Its a basically a search engine for public matrix rooms.

In terms of clients, while there are cool 3rd party clients, they lag behind so much that they dont give you a good picture of the current feature set. Only element-desktop and ElementX Android / iOS support the current audio/video call system.

Also see this server list, because the big one (matrix.org) is not recommended https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

You can check out:

https://matrix.to/#/#div0-techystuff:matrix.org

Me too, sadly most clients are shit. Only conversation on android is quite nice.

XMPP is not that good of a protocol: https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/.

I'm not saying matrix is free of any issues, but it's still better than xmpp.

You have your roots in Israel.

They cut out Amdocs' founding in 2017