Secure Messaging Apps Comparison | Privacy Matters
This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Simple...
While XMPP is fine as you suggest, I don't like offering services to others—it's not worth it.
The combination of Signal and Simplex is my favorite.
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Then you can help others to have their own services, but it does not scale. Simplex may scale while we can run some servers, not as centralised as signal.