Mastodawn

QuadRadical Jun 14, 2025

Hello!

Does anyone know of a public Prosody XMPP server? In light of recent events in Matrix I wanted to try XMPP.

Also could someone explain OMEMO encryption to me? I know Prosody supports it, but is it on by default?

Thanks!

EDIT: Found an instance

#XMPP #Matrix #OMEMO #Prosody #ProsodyIM

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hexaheximal Jun 14, 2025

@QuadRadical I don't know of any public Prosody servers but as for the second part: OMEMO is (mostly) a client-side issue. I've self-hosted Prosody before, and I can say from experience that yes, OMEMO works fine from the server-side perspective by default - because OMEMO is almost entirely a client-side thing, and iirc the only things required by the server are not even specific to OMEMO. If you use Gajim, it should mostly Just Work.

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hexaheximal

@QuadRadical However, unlike Matrix, OMEMO does not (afaict) support automatic (the emoji-based thing) verification, so make sure to look at the key fingerprints shown by your client and ask the other person through a different (non-XMPP) means for their known-good client key fingerprints.