Setting Up Your Own XMPP Server for Private Messaging
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codedge
7mo ago· 9 min readenOpinion
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Summary
The article discusses privacy concerns with mainstream messaging platforms and proposes running a personal XMPP server as a solution. It highlights how commercial messaging services may monitor conversations, sell user data for advertising, and leak private information. The author expresses concern about the European Commission's plan to automatically monitor all digital communications, viewing it as a threat to freedom of speech. The piece advocates for self-hosted XMPP servers as a way to regain control over personal communications and protect privacy from corporate and government surveillance.
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Since 3 years the European Commission works on a plan to automatically monitor all chat, email and messenger conversations.
If this is going to pass, and I strongly hope it will not, the European Union is moving into a direction we know from states suppressing freedom of speech.
I went for setting up my own XMPP server, as this does not have any bi
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.
