I’m looking to try self-hosting an XMPP server for my family to use as a secure communication platform. I realize that end2end encryption with XMPP doesn’t seem as strong as something like Matrix but my self-hosted Matrix server has been very unreliable.

I’m looking for recommendations and resources. I’v considered running Prosody and Openfire but both of them look like a pretty involved installation process with plenty of room to fuck up. Does anyone know of something similar to matrix-ansible-install for an XMPP server? Should I be looking at something besides Prosody or Openfire?

Please, no YouTube tutorials. I prefer written instructions.

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    7 months ago

    I realize that end2end encryption with XMPP doesn’t seem as strong as something like Matrix

    E2E encryption has absolutely nothing to do with the server you’re going to use. The server doesn’t even know what E2E encryption is and only manages the transfer of the data.

    It is entirely up to the client to handle the encryption. This can be good encryption like with public and private key, or even stupid ROT13.