@jae I'll give it to you that onboarding could be kind of an issue, but #XMPP has come a really long way in that regards. From the server side of things (with mod_invites) just as from the client side with easy onboarding straight from the app without having to create an account from a web page or anything like that.

Onboarding from a recent (mid 2025) client is as easy as installing the app, open it, choose create account, pick one from the drop down list of server, provide a password. Done.