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[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Prosody is a great piece of software, and so is ejabberd which offers some perks. I can't speak for the other servers (mongooseim, openfire, tigase, ...) which I haven't tried in a long time,

All that's to say that it's amazing that we get so many well maintained and compatible servers (and clients) implementations in XMPP-land, and all the implications for its healthy future.

[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed, prosody is great! I've been doing some experimenting with ejabberd and it seems more enterprise-ready, but I haven't found anything that is discernable as far as feature advantages.