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I never heard of it. Is it's decentralised setup it's unique feature that makes it different from Signal? Who uses this messenger, with whom for what?
Edit: This is not meant to sound harsh, I'm curious
It's basically XMPP with a clear packaging, from server to client
I've been using it for more than a year to communicate with my family and a very small group of friends. The video and audio call features are good and I've replaced phone calls and Signal/WhatsApp with it. Because it's XMPP, there are many clients you can use, not just the Snikket app. Overall, I recommend it because of the End2End Encryption features and self-hostable (if that's a term)
Similar here.
Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD
Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.
I haven't really either, just from browsing their website it seems like a federated service you can either host yourself or join someone else's, and then use their app (or a fork) to invite the people you specifically want to talk to.
I don't know much about XMPP, but that is what it's based on.
XMPP is what Matrix was meant to be, but 15 years too early