I haven’t hosted my own matrix server yet. is it safe to join an instance? I don’t really know how private that would be. the question is when I signup/login would I be giving out my IP? is the metadata private? sorry I’m just a bit paranoid

  • jazzfes@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    What would be a good way to host your own XMPP server for messaging and video? I tried setting up ejabbert but didn’t get it to work for video… setting up a synapse server on the other hand was easier.

    Any other options? Or good ejabbert guides for that matter?

    • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      You set up both synapse and jitsi-meet? Because Matrix does not natively support video at all and simply uses the XMPP based Jitsi-meet for it. Also did you setup your own identity service for Synapse? Because without both, you didn’t really self-host matrix :p

      In general though, getting video to work with STUN/TURN is a bit more involved. But this is a general issue and also happens if you self-host video support with Matrix.

      But you might have better luck with https://snikket.org/ which tries to include everything and is based on Prosody.