[ale] small XMPP server.

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Tue Jan 3 22:00:18 EST 2017


On my phone I have Trillian with a Facebook plugin and Goohle plugin.
Othwrwise Pidgin with the purple-facebook plugin.  It already has the
Google plugin by default.

On 2017-01-03 18:24, Boris Borisov wrote:
> How did you use XMPP. I never got luck since they adopted double auth.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2017-01-03 15:51, Boris Borisov wrote:
>     > I'm tired of trying to use facebook or gmail for messaging my friends. Since
>     > these companies removed support for XMPP you have to use different messengers or
>     > the one provided by the company. I'm going to try to set small XMPP server for
>     > myself and my friends and let them use it.
> 
>     Google and Facebook both still have XMPP (I'm using both literally right
>     now in a window next to this one and on my phone next to the keyboard).
>     They just don't announce it. :)  (Technically both of the services rely
>     on XMPP for their own applications, they just have extended it a bit to
>     allow things like ads and other specific integration, but the core XMPP
>     chat works.)
> 
>     For a personal server I have set up Prosody on one of my spare machines.
>       It seems ok but configuration is via editing Lua script and I don't
>     fully understand Lua syntax so I made lots of mistakes at first.  I've
>     also seen lots of references to ejabberd and openfire as I was working
>     on Asterisk/XMPP integration.
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