Movim
Prosody IM
Movim | Prosody IM | |
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41 | 23 | |
1,696 | 594 | |
0.5% | - | |
9.4 | 9.4 | |
5 days ago | 14 days ago | |
JavaScript | Lua | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Movim
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The Matrix Trashfire
When https://siskin.im/ is seriously touted as the best iOS client for XMPP, you already lost 50% of the market share in the US. And if you don't have any usable app for 50% of your users in one of the most important markets, you can not really claim "interoperability", can you?
Don't get me wrong, it would be great if more people were using XMPP. Now that I am more involved in the Fediverse space I'm learning how many wheels are being reinvented and XMPP has already solved. If more people learned about https://movim.eu I'd be able to shut off Communick and move on to do something else to do with my life, but the reality is that XMPP failed to achieve critical mass because it never had someone to complete control the protocol.
- Movim 0.22.2 – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP
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What's the status and progress of decentralized social media?
Let me put it in another way: of all the existing projects out there, which one does actually bring material benefit to the users and publishers compared with, e.g, Mastodon, Matrix, Movim or Nostr?
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Thinkpad for Full Stack Web Development?
Any Thinkpad will do the job. I'm working daily on a T430 and X220 for both my personal and professional web dev work. I've been developing Movim for more that 10years on the same computer https://movim.eu/
- Movim 0.21: A federated, open-source web-based social Jabber/XMPP client
- Y a t il des incorruptibles du logiciel libre sur r/france ?
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Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
For social networking atop XMPP, see https://movim.eu/
Combined with the in-development ActivityPub gateway from Libervia, interop with Mastodon, Pleroma and others becomes possible too. The decentralized social web space is quite active at the moment.
- How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
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Instagram Is Over
If you don't care at all about poluar figures and just want to share content with people you actually know, https://movim.eu would be a much better alternative.
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Ask HN: Private group chat with no registration
> No registration needed for group members
This one is the most troublesome I think.
Usually this is in a conferencing solutions though, so no such thing as chat rooms, I think.
Otherwise I would suppose something like XMPP with a web frontend, eg https://movim.eu/
ejabberd supports anonymous users, though I can't say if movim or any else web-client supports that natively
https://www.ejabberd.im/Anonymous-users-support/index.html
Prosody IM
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My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA
XMPP server using Prosody
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
lua on its own right can be fun too! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, there's for instance the Prosody XMPP server that's written in it, and contributes to the betterment of internet by promoting federated protocols.
There's also the http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell something about Lua's versatility.
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VoceChat server is ready! Rust written 17MB open sourced chat server--the easiest to host/intergrate chat server you can find.
Take your pick. Or just look here.
- Chat Server
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A History of Lua
You can write largish standalone application in Lua and it is not always a poor choice - Prosody [1] first comes to mind. But qualities which make it a good embedded language make it less _attractive_ for other uses.
Lua has very simple syntax and small stdlib which allows its implementation to be very small - you can add Lua to your application and not increase its size significantly. But when the size is not a concern most programmers prefer languages with rich, powerful syntax lots of features and batteries-included stdlib (which is completely opposite of Lua).
[1] https://prosody.im/
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Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.
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Google Chat through Matrix questions
Selfhosting XMPP is pretty simple with https://prosody.im/
- Need Advice on Instant Messaging
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Ask HN: What is your recommended stack for real time chat?
My choice, because it's the stack I know very well, would be Prosody ( https://prosody.im/ - I'm one of the devs) and a web client such as Converse.js ( https://conversejs.org/ ). XMPP is highly extensible, Prosody is highly modular, which make them a good foundation for building on top of.
That said, the right stack is generally the one that matches your requirements, and (if this isn't primarily a learning exercise) whatever you're most familiar with. The hardest part of building a Discord or Slack-like in 2022 is actually not the technical stuff. There are many comprehensive open-source products already out there that compete with these companies, such as Mattermost, RocketChat and Element.
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
ejabberd - Robust, Ubiquitous and Massively Scalable Messaging Platform (XMPP, MQTT, SIP Server)
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
Openfire - An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
snikket-server - Image builder for Snikket server
Metronome IM - Metronome IM, lightweight xmpp server with advanced microblogging features.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Tigase - Tigase XMPP server patched for Kontalk
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
matterbridge - bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Converse.js - Web-based XMPP/Jabber chat client written in JavaScript
jackal - 💬 Instant messaging server for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).