Just to start off, know that I have zero experience with this. I’m only looking into doing this because I’m absolutely sick and tired of centralised services (in this case Discord) turning to shit, and want to start a Discord-like/alternative federation between my friends.
Prosody seems to be the easiest to set up, and has all the available capabilities for a server that allows Discord-like functionality (text, group voicecall, streaming). Movim is the client that makes use of all that.
But I don’t have a clue how to set up a Prosody server with Podman. I’ve never done this before. I started by downloading the Prosody image through Podman, then tried running it, which prompted the creation of a container. Kept everything at the defaults and tried running it, but it didn’t work.
What do I do from here?
Just a PSA. For voip to work you’ll need something like Coturn (TURN signaling server) which needs a gaping hole in your firewall. We ended up using mumble for ingame voice and jitsi meet if we need the other stuff (screen share, videos, whiteboard, etc)
That post title reads like nerdy mad libs
Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;
I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).
you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.
someone else said snikket before me! agreed
Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.
Setting up an xmpp server is not a good entrypoint in the self-hosting space. It is quite hard to build. It is a complex system made of different components in order to achieve what you expect from it. I strongly recommend using existing servers. If you want to tinker, find something else (a samba share and a vpn on bare metal is a good starting point in order to learn).
