I have #Prosody #XMPP set up on one of my servers now... I'm wondering whether I'll actually use it going forward. I could open it up to allow public registrations, but I'll need to give this some thought. Suggestions appreciated.

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I want to set up Prosody as well.
Got any tips and/or links to good instructions for me?

@FreePietje Update: It seems the latest versions of Profanity support OMEMO, but the deb packages for these versions aren't available in stable repo: https://packages.debian.org/testing/profanity

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And they won't be due to Debian Stable's policy.
But there are packages in Buster-backports. They're not (yet?) as up-to-date as the ones in Bullseye/Sid, but they do support OMEMO.

I'm not really a fan of Pidgin, so thanks for alerting me to the existence of Profanity :)

@FreePietje Yeah Profanity is nice. I tested it and it works fine. I'm just not sure whether I want the hassle of manually installing a newer version from source, as I'll hardly be using XMPP much anyway. I just wanted to consider it as a backup E2E encrypted, decentralised messaging solution in place of Signal etc. I really like Session messenger too, but again no one I know uses it... It took long enough persuading people to install Signal!

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Stable(/Buster) Backports are binary .deb packages, so you'd install/update it just like any other package. IOW, it's not 'installing from source'.
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

One of my (main) reasons to install/use #XMPP is precisely because a friend doesn't want to install Signal. Another one, somewhat related, is that it's actually decentralized.
I share your dilemma of trying to convert ppl yet again, so I won't do that for (quite) a while.

@FreePietje Just installed Profanity 0.9x through backports. Hope OMEMO works...