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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Are there any benefits of hosting your own XMPP server? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by pinkolik to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! Are there any benefits of hosting your own XMPP server, considering I always use end-to-end encryption in all of my chats?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I host my own. I'd say my contacts are split between XMPP and Matrix with many people having both. A lot of business use self hosted XMPP servers too. For example, Cisco communications solutions are based on XMPP.

The issue with free public servers is that you have no accountability. If they go away, or are left unmaintained, there's nothing you can do about it.

My two cents, host at home, or at an infrastructure provider you pay for service.

[–] pinkolik 2 points 1 year ago

Good points! Thank you :)