How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 day

Gamers Nexus has a whole thurough benchmark video out.

TLDW; the Steam Machine is very expensive for what it can do. Unfortunately that’s just reality because the components cost about as much today…

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 days

“Our new AI listens to you and will do whatever you tell it to do.”

“Tell it to fuck off.”

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 days

Well fuck you too Canonical.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

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?

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 months

Would that include code and assets generated for AAA games?

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 7 months

Sounds about right.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 7 months

I dunno why, can’t really put my finger on it, but I have this slight hunch that it might be related to fascism in some way.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 year

What do the other two do better?

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 year

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 year

Yes, but he also programmed Jarvis… So…

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 years

I’d rather wait for the t1000 to come out.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 years

“Because” is spelled wrong.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 years

But Discord is too convenient.