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by the_third_wave
332 days ago
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Certainly XMPP is not perfect but then again, nothing is. The extensibility does make it a bit of a gamble whether any specific server - which can be used for all kinds of purposes, many of which not related to human communication - offers everything a client program expects it to. Then again if your communication/discussion partners all make sure to use servers which support the essentials for the type of use you want to make of it - usually that'll mean those XEPs need for OMEMO, muc and maybe Jingle, the Conversations project publishes a list of what is needed [1] - things work just fine and you'll be communicating without the need for centralised (monetised, censored, monitored, ...) services. I've been running it for decades now, first as a backup "just in case" communication channel but for the last 7 years or so as my main channel to family and friends. We're using mostly the Conversations (-derived) client(s) on mobile, Gajim on desktop and Converse.js on web with servers running on different types of hardware ranging from SBCs (RasPi etc) to ex-lease enterprise hardware. The maintenance burden on the server software is close to zero with Prosody, it hardly takes any resources and has never crashed on me. [1] https://codeberg.org/inputmice/Conversations#xmpp-features |
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