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by fernando_campos 109 days ago
I still see XMPP mostly used in self-hosted or privacy-focused setups rather than mainstream chat.

Prosody has been the easiest server to run in my experience — lightweight and minimal maintenance. ejabberd seems preferred when scalability or clustering is important.

What keeps XMPP interesting is the federation model. Running your own server while still communicating across domains feels closer to email than modern messaging platforms.