Prosody: how, what and why?

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Hello folks,

I’ve put this here because it’s not really a request for technical help. I want to get a picture of what Prosody does, and I’m finding it hard to pull together all the stuff on github, the YNH forum and app stores, etc. I am impressed by the amount of activity around it and very grateful to the clever people who are putting so much time into it. I just need a bit of clarity.

Could anyone give me an overview of what Prosody does and doesn’t do, and what else I need to install to use it and why it’s better than Metronome? I miss XMPP, but prosody, so far, looks as though it is for cleverer people than me. I’m wondering whether I should just accept I’m stuck with Telegram.

Best wishes

:france:

Bonjour à tous,

J’ai mis ceci ici car ce n’est pas vraiment une demande d’aide technique. Je veux me faire une idée de ce que fait Prosody, et j’ai du mal à rassembler tout ce qu’il y a sur github, le forum YNH, les app stores, etc. Je suis impressionné par la quantité d’activité autour de Prosody et très reconnaissant envers les personnes intelligentes qui y consacrent tant de temps. J’ai juste besoin d’un peu de clarté.

Est-ce que quelqu’un pourrait me donner une vue d’ensemble de ce que Prosody fait et ne fait pas, et ce que je dois installer pour l’utiliser et pourquoi il est meilleur que Metronome ? XMPP me manque, mais pour l’instant, Prosody a l’air d’être destiné à des personnes plus intelligentes que moi. Je me demande si je ne devrais pas accepter d’être coincé avec Telegram.

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i dont answer all your questions because i don’t know answers to all of them.

Metronome was (is, still?) a fork of Prosody. Both are XMPP servers. You can make users, mucs and all the XMPP things :sparkles:.

I’m not sure why the switch has been made between Metronome & Prosody in YNH env. Prosody was ahead i think. I found this topic listing few differencies between the two

What XMPP do? well, a lot of things here’s a list of XEP (XMPP extension) supported by Prosody XMPP Extensions (XEPs) supported in Prosody – Prosody IM

If you were using Metronome, well it does the same but could do much more.

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Thank you for this.

You know, I’ve done many searches over tgr last few days on the forum and none brought up that thread. I will read it with interest.

Thanks again.

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