Eldaroth

Nice, had my XMPP server now running for a couple of weeks, not many users on it so far though. But my highlight of the week was managing to get the slidge whatsapp bridge with Prosody running, so I at least don’t have to use the official app anymore for all those people who resist to get off of it.

Haha nice, already searched that one on F-Droid after not finding the Dawarich Android app on there. Looking forward to it!

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

In the meantime I tried the app and it looks awesome! However, I noticed the app relies on google’s services location accuracy unfortunately. This is kind of a deal breaker for me to use the app for now. But I get that imlementing an F-Droid version is not your top priority, so I’ll follow the project and patiently wait for it :)

Are there any plans to make the android app available on F-Droid as well? Or releasing the apk in the GitHub repo so we can install it with Obtainium?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned somewhere, couldn’t find it in your post or on the website.

Yeah you could consider it old school, or maybe just a product of another time were people didn’t mind to use multiple software for different uses.

I for one don’t mind using Mumble for voice and XMPP for text chat or one to one calls for example.

I don’t have a computer or smartphone so I only can install one app and that’s it. And I know I might be in the minority when it comes to that, at least compared to the general public. For gods sake it’s already hard to get people to install a second messenger app, not even trying to get them off WhatsApp or other meta crap…

I believe group calling is only a thing certain clients (e.g. Dino, Movim) support, although there is a initiative to implement it on protocol level as far as I am aware.

If you have your own VPS anyway, there is the Matrix Ansible Playbook which makes the setup with docker containers very easy. But I also get the sentiment that you don’t want to tinker around all the time and just want stuff to work.

Kudos to you for using Matrix in the first place, I hope you can bring a lot of your friends and family to switch over to it. So far this has been the biggest hurdle on my journey 😅

XMPP knows invite links, there are even servers which support invite pages which list suitable clients one could use for XMPP. Prosody for example has this module you could enable: mod_invites_page

And then there is also Snikket, which is a pre-configured XMPP server suite (running prosody under the hood) with some nice QoL improvements baked in which you can selfhost as well: Snikket Quick Start Selfhost