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Hi all,

I run a private self-hosted Synapse server with bridges for:

  • Signal
  • WhatsApp
  • Doscord
  • IRC
  • Google Voice
  • Custom APIs

I am thinking of switching to XMPP. Can anyone recommend a good Docker-based server and transport combo that I could test out?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

The Signal gateway has currently issues, due to Signald being broken.

For WhatsApp and Discord there is Slidge.

IRC works great with Biboumi.

I am not aware of a Google voice bridge, but there are ways to bridge to the regular phone network and sms. The easiest is the https://jmp.chat/ service.

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

@poVoq @fmstrat I ran ejabberd for years before switching to matrix (synapse). Matrix was a disaster, plus jmp.chat is a fantastic google voice / VOIP replacement, so I switched back to xmpp (with prosody). Out of those options, prosody is clearly the best for self-hosting.

[–] ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it worth swapping from snikket? Seemed to ve an easier way to get prosody

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 1 week ago

@ssdfsdf3488sd My understanding it that they're both pretty much the same, so I wouldn't unless snikket has stopped being maintained or something?

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