XMPP Service Operators - 2026-05-01

bros gota serve

Awesome, exciting to be an xmpp operator

welcome

earth, could you change your nick to contain the server you operate?

why do you keep asking people to do that ? It's almost only you that does

yeah

> why do you keep asking people to do that ? It's almost only you that does theres many who do, and its useful ↺

Done

I have an open sign up but I'm not sure what kind of protection I should add to prevent bots

moparisthebest, para, if you both scroll up you will see rather common messages of whether the admin of x server is here, its pretty easy to figure out the admin of what server if its in someones nick. Maybe this can instead be added to authbot, to have two way lookup eg: !whois moparisthebest > moparisthebest.com and then the other way around !whois moparisthebest.com > moparisthebest

where are the sources for authbot?

I've been thinking about adding hats with the server names

But not all clients render those yet

indeed

> moparisthebest, para, if you both scroll up you will see rather common messages of whether the admin of x server is here, its pretty easy to figure out the admin of what server if its in someones nick. > > Maybe this can instead be added to authbot, to have two way lookup eg: > > !whois moparisthebest > > > moparisthebest.com > > and then the other way around > > !whois moparisthebest.com > > > moparisthebest this would work on all clients though ↺

You could also request a contact info feature in your client, if it doesn't already have one :)

icebound.dev: i just configure profanity to highlight messages that include my server name ✏

> You could also request a contact info feature in your client, if it doesn't already have one :) true. ↺

But that is one way, I can check the contact info of the server, but I cant tell which admin in this channel is which server

unless I check all servers and see which is which

also sorry gajim just segfaulted, happens decently often on FreeBSD

earth (grr.llc): about protection : here in the article are some links as a start https://blog.prosody.im/simple-anti-spam-tips/

so which of the dozen domains I run XMPP on should I put in my nick? seems unhelpful

The best one

well like I said adding it to authbot would work well

> so which of the dozen domains I run XMPP on should I put in my nick? seems unhelpful whatever one gave you speech perms in the channel ↺

In short: there is no policy here that people must put their server name in their nick. If you want to, that's fine.

> In short: there is no policy here that people must put their server name in their nick. If you want to, that's fine. yeah I know, but its really helpful ↺

MattJ, wheres the authbot sources

and what lang?

I don't know and I can't remember

who wrote authbot

jonas?

I think so. But I'm not sure where it's running. Basically we set it up and I think it's just worked since.

the domain I'm connected from would be the least helpful one, since it's a private server with almost no users but yea the database lookup tool thing could be useful

jonas’, could you provide a link to the sources please :)

I would be happy to look into this, and add it to the list of stuff I will end up never doing :p

icebound.dev, ~i think~ this is it, ~pretty sure~ he sent it to me previously https://github.com/horazont/authbot ✏

> icebound.dev, ~i think~ this is it, ~pretty sure~ he sent it to me previously > https://github.com/horazont/authbot jjj333_p [pain.agency], thanks :D ↺

Nice

its python, so I should be able to implement this myself then, although havent written python in ages

python is fine if you kinda just take a couple shots, close your eyes, and go for it

its docker though 🤮

docker is a security nightmare

but hey ho not my problem :p

I will bookmark this and take a look later on

> docker is a security nightmare I was not aware of this what's wrong with docker ↺

ot for the channel, I shouldnt have mentioned it anyways :)

nothing docker there, only an industry standard container file

> its docker though 🤮 looks like a normal python bot that you can just set up with pip or whatever the flavor of the week is. a lot of people just like to throw that into a docker ↺

my main concern is aiohttp is probably not the most "batteries included" python lib these days, im not sure how usable it is compared to slixmpp which ive learned to enjoy working with

> I was not aware of this what's wrong with docker earth (grr.llc), hes just kinda like this, dw about it ↺

i hate docker from a ux standpoint, but its kinda whatever

What ux

I use cli docker compose

> my main concern is aiohttp is probably not the most "batteries included" python lib these days, im not sure how usable it is compared to slixmpp which ive learned to enjoy working with if it works, why change it :) ↺

> if it works, why change it :) true, i just meant in terms of adding features, idk how easy it will be ↺

Shouldn't be too hard to port to the new lib tbh

> Shouldn't be too hard to port to the new lib tbh true ig ↺