Google have been quietly de-listing
#XMPP apps from their Play store one-by-one for made-up reasons. Today they finally came for Conversations (
https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929074071688694 ).
@fdroidorg doesn't have these problems, and they additionally rebuild from source, supporting reproducible builds (so unlike the Play store, you know the published source code matches what's in the app you download). With their recent enhancements (
https://f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.html ) I'll be recommending it to more people.