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It's quite an impressive little app. Under the hood, it's an advanced XMPP client that has:
- Excellent text chats with file upload support, including solid optional encryption (OMEMO, based on Signal's encryption but modified to be compatible with federation)
- Group voice/video calls with screensharing (must use a chromium based browser to screenshare an app's audio at the moment)
- A neat integrated blogging feature for communities & individuals
- a fun built-in paint program to draw stuff into the chat
- Full working and proven federation thanks to the XMPP back-end, which allows it to scale up reliably and easily self-host (XMPP is very lightweight).
- Uses the AGPL license, ensuring that cropos won't be able to take it over. It'll be community-owned forever.
In message-mode, it looks fairly similar to Discord:
If you're curious if it'd work as a Discord replacement, it's still missing Discord-like servers with collections of rooms in them, as well as drop-in voice rooms. However, the developer is actively working on implementing those features, with the server w/rooms part likely to be implemented within the next few weeks. They already posted what it looks like in the development branch:
To stay updated on its progress, the !xmpp@slrpnk.net community pretty reliably posts news about it.
I was looking for a Whatsapp/Telegram replacement to use with my girlfriend. Apps are needed to make calls. I ended up using DeltaChat
https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/763572/looking-for-a-federated-alternative-to-signal-as-they-might-have-to-comply-with-chatcontro
From that post
I really liked DeltaChat also but had difficulty convincing others to use it. Somehow it makes me happy to hear that you've adopted it!
The very easy onboarding really helps!