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How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Just to start off, know that I have zero experience with this. I'm only looking into doing this because I'm absolutely sick and tired of centralised services (in this case Discord) turning to shit, and want to start a Discord-like/alternative federation between my friends.

Prosody seems to be the easiest to set up, and has all the available capabilities for a server that allows Discord-like functionality (text, group voicecall, streaming). Movim is the client that makes use of all that.

But I don't have a clue how to set up a Prosody server with Podman. I've never done this before. I started by downloading the Prosody image through Podman, then tried running it, which prompted the creation of a container. Kept everything at the defaults and tried running it, but it didn't work.

What do I do from here?

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just a heads up, I feel like the people here who say things like "snikket is easy" are knowledgeable enough to forget what being a beginner is like.

I've been able to get both a Synapse server and a Continuwuity server up and working before I've been able to get anything XMPP working, including snikket. For being the older protocol, XMPP stuff just seems to be harder to find help/tutorials for, at least in my experience so far.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Snikket is definitly not harder to set up than Synapse or Condinuwuity, the difference is mainly that Matrix is based on standard web technology, so if you have some knowledge in that already, XMPP can feel a bit alien since it is an actual protocol different from http(s).

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

I mean, difficulty is relative mate. I just said I couldn't get Snikket working (after multiple tries, too) but I've spun up both matrix servers. So I'd personally say it's harder.

[–] methuselah@toot.io 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@iamthetot @Tattorack just why not trust conversations server or any other public server with encryption

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Part of the appeal of these services, to some, is the decentralization.