I think Pidgin is largely abandonware.
There is however an OMEMO plugin like you mentioned: https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
A better choice than Pidgin would be Gajim: https://gajim.org/
Gajim https://gajim.org oder UWPX https://uwpx.org
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