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Purism are using Matrix for chat forums, including for the Librem 5 phone:
https://developer.puri.sm/Contact.html#matrix-chat-rooms
So, decided to give it a go. There are various Matrix client apps, and I compiled Qt5-based Nheko:
The PET for EasyOS 0.9.5+ (not yet released) is here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/pet/pet_packages-pyro/nheko-0.5.1-pyro64.pet
Dependencies are 'olm', 'libsodium', 'liblmdb', which are also PETs.
Also 'boost' version 1.66, which is in the upcoming Easy 0.9.5.
Nheko, at startup, offered to register, where a username, password,
and "Home Server" can be entered. For the latter, I entered
"matrix.org", and a captcha came up in the browser to verify that I am a
human.
After starting Nheko, I was in my own "room",
"@<myusername>:matrix.org", but unable to change out of it. Nheko
is lacking some features, but is under rapid development.
I logged in at the online browser Matrix client:
Logged in, I was able to ratify a user-agreement, that then allowed
changing rooms. I was also able to personalize my account, with email
and avatar, which cannot be done in Nheko.
Started up Nheko, logged in, then hit the "+" icon and was able to
change rooms. Chose "#community-librem-5:talk.puri.sm", and yay, there
it is!
Hmmm, perhaps it is easier just to use the online client.