What's the downside to #selfhosting all the things?

• #Nextcloud
• #Pleroma
• #WordPress
• NAS
• Mail
• #Jellyfin
• #Forgejo
• #Snikket #XMPP

The Internet and the web were born open, then closed walls were built in the name of profit and user convenience. It's time we leave the closed walls behind and go back to how the Internet was supposed to be: a collection of independent applications using common protocols.

https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/

https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternative.html

If I run `lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN`, should I see ports listening from a #Docker container? I'm trying to get a #Snikket container up and running using a reverse proxy, but having some trouble and I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong here. I followed the reverse proxy instructions for #Apache, but when I enable the site Apache is failing even though the config check says syntax is ok. I'm not seeing the configured ports from the Snikket config listening.

#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?

My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*

So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.

Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": https://gultsch.social/@daniel/114012904576436518

It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird

Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".

(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)

#Prav project started 3 years ago with the goal of mass adoption of private messaging powered by #XMPP and democratic decision-making. The project was inspired by #Quicksy and #Snikket.

Read more at https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/backstory-behind-prav-app-project/

Today, I am glad to announce our first edition of #PravConf in #Kochi, #India. Join us on the 1st and the 2nd of March.

Don't forget to spread the word

More details at https://conf.prav.app

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Kom då och gör oss sällskap på Linuxkompis publika gruppchatt på Snikket!

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Har du inget konto på Snikket (eller XMPP) tillhandahåller Linuxkompis konton till alla som är intresserad. Hojta till om du vill ha en inbjudan!

Om du inte har en susning om vad Snikket är, kan du läsa den här gamla artikeln som jag skrev för flera år sedan, och som jag förmodligen behöver ge lite ny kärlek.

https://linuxkompis.se/2021/12/16/en-introduktion-till-snikket.html

I wrote a blog post on setting up #Prosody #XMPP server on #Debian 12, Bookworm.

Most people should probably just stick with #Snikket, but for those who would prefer to go the manual setup route hopefully this will be of interest or help.

https://blog.hetherington.uk/2024/12/setting-up-xmpp-prosody-on-debian-bookworm/

After a long time, the #xmpp server #prosody released its next stable version 0.12. It was time well spend, there is a big leap in features, just to pick one, I want to highlight the invite system. Known from the sister project #snikket.org. Simple onboarding! https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/ But see for yourself all the other features that make it even easier then before to selfhost a good decentralized chat software, that is as extendable as the protocol itself. https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.12.0-released/