Someodd XMPP

Modern, encrypted communication owned by everyone, not big tech giants.

Voice and video calls, send photos and files, create group chats, and more.

Don’t use text messages, Signal, WhatsApp, or Discord, use this service instead!

Like email you trust one email provider with your account, like example@gmail.com, but you can still email people who use another provider like tim@apple.com, except here we’re talking about chat and calls.

You can use different apps to use this service. For example, on Android, I think Conversations is very nice. On my laptop I use Gajim.

I wrote some about my journey setting up this service, so the setup is transparent, and I suppose in a way, open source.

My XMPP server is invite-only. It’s linked to my IRC server!

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Tips

You can join any someodd IRC channel from XMPP! Just try joining a room like #main@irc.xmpp.someodd.zip (if enough people want I may open it up to being able to join other IRC servers as well!)
Gajim and Conversations support Jingle, which means you can make video and voice calls!

My favorite clients

XMPP app for desktop/laptop (Linux, Windows, Mac): Gajim (seen below, edited to respect privacy):

Gajim XMPP client connected to my XMPP server which is also connected to my IRC server

XMPP app for Android (it’s free on F-Droid, costs money on Google Play): Conversations.

Features

Voice & Video Calls: Make calls with clients that support it (like Conversations & Gajim).: fa-cog
Chat Groups: Start a group of friends!: fa-cloud-download-alt
Web Client: Join from your browser!: fa-people-arrows
You can use my IRC server from XMPP
Coming soon:
- Anonymous web client to join someodd IRC

This is probably a non-fully-inclusive list of features!

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Take a look at my about page for my contact info.

Documentation and tutorials

I documented how you can run a setup similar to someodd IRC