• Try to set up an #XMPP server
• Install ejabberd on my Raspberry Pi
• Install a client on my laptop
• Connect locally over the intranet
• It doesn't work
• Try again
• It doesn't work
• Check certificates
• No I don't have TLS set up why would I I just installed this
• Look at what ports should be exposed
• The hell there are four?!

. . .

• Give up, install #Matrix from docker
• Add one Cloudflare tunnel to expose the Matrix port
• Navigate to a web client
• Connect to server
• Oops it works

... I submit to the community that the fall of the XMPP star had less to do with Google dropping support for it and a lot more to do with... gesticulates wildly