So, I’ve had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I’m heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I’ve got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

“Better” server software?

Thanks

  • mbirthAEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yep, had ejabberd running on a Pi 3 with all the XEPs supported by Conversations enabled and various transports. 4 or 5 people at times. No problems at all - with chat and memes, that is. Never tried video or voice calls, but I don’t think they require much work from the Pi itself.

    However, similar to @solidgrue@lemmy.world, in a bout of simplifying my life I decided to nix the setup as all people involved also had one or more of Threema, Signal or Telegram anyways.