cannot set up an account

[pidgin at alexoren.com]

> I have downloaded pidgin and am having trouble getting my account to connect.  I wanted to use Jabber, but was informed that jabber is no longer taking new clients.

That makes no sense.  Jabber is a protocol (also called XMPP).  There are many public jabber servers that you can set up an account on.

I personally had a good experience with jabber.at, but here are several lists:
https://list.jabber.at/
https://xmpp.net/directory.php
https://www.jabberes.org/servers/servers_by_times_online.html