XMPP Service Operators - 2026-08-15

freespoken.nz yeah I'm not familiar with that one. Im open to running one, and can probably get a free vps by talking nicely to my friend. My only concern is having enough admins/moderators available around the clock to sort any potential (spammer) issues.

Yeah, I'd also be concerned about having the energy to deal with spammers.

I helped a friend run mastodon.nz for a few years before our hardware he had colo in Auckoand DC aged out with SSD wear etc, and friend wasnt interested enough to keep poking hardware at it, so we found an admin running an Aussie server to take over. Us admins/moderators are all still in a private chat together a few years later and it mostly never felt like a chore because there were 6 or 7 of us.

Having enough people makes it so much better. There were 6 of us when we only had 100 users, and when we approached 10k users it was busier but still manageable.

Send me a DM at this username at lowkey.party if you are thinking a combined effort might be something to look at.

Maybe, thanks. I'm tim@ my domain, if you want to contact me.

oh weird, I have a underline after my name here

I'm tempted by the invite tree model, but I'm currently fairly generous about upload size and storage duration (forever), which I might need to reduce if it went beyond people I know personally.

yeah, agreed.

i wish existing http upload modules allowed for more tiered limits

if i ever get around to developing a client ill probably make an external http upload component to add a lot of experimental features

there are 9999999 external http upload components , surely one does what you want ?

ive only heard about one, and i want one that i can easily add experimental features that dont exist in the spec

someone had a big list...

jjj333_p [pain.agency]: have a look at the Libervia one.

oh here's a list https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external

> oh here's a list https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external oh this is working against prosody's internal component, i was planning to just use slixmpp and have a whole external component with custom xmpp behavior ↺

https://downloadable.pain.agency/file_share/01a002dc-d486-7a4f-814e-9f26dc6d5248/12c48c89-e80d-4a3c-9270-65f2e40d29cf.png

🤔it loaded fine but is complainign about connection

https://downloadable.pain.agency/file_share/01a002de-8e21-79b0-acc8-ef9f839fe28c/1f4a22e9-677f-4436-b218-c645b681d249.png

> jjj333_p [pain.agency]: have a look at the Libervia one. either im looking in the wrong place or this is not what i was looking for ↺

https://libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/components.html#file-sharing

ah okay that does have the tiered limits, though that wasnt the main feature i wanted in the end. thanks though

probably a good suggestion for nigel / tim

no I'm happy using the default lol

That it allows people to delete uploaded files themselves is the other main advantage.

mah they can age out in a week or month or whatever

meh*

it's a chat service not a file service.

> That it allows people to delete uploaded files themselves is the other main advantage. thats also a nice feature i wanted to implement, unsure how that works here though ↺

It is explained in the link I send. Either the client needs to support the xep to browse the files (afaik only Libervia does), or you can do it via ad-hoc commands.

oh that xep already exists, cool

> oh here's a list https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external looking at this again, why does the link to the php implementation just go to the direct download not a hg page? ↺

why not microbin?

because the raw file download is being served by prosody hg

https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/raw-file/tip/mod_http_upload_external/share.php

hmm ok

>> oh here's a list https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external > looking at this again, why does the link to the php implementation just go to the direct download not a hg page? Because that is the same source as the module you're already looking at. The link to "source" is here https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external At the bottom "Source" - link ↺

hm i c