It is not spam, and you miss-read it. Prose is an open-source XMPP client. They can set you up (host on your behalf) for free, up to a certain point. You can pay for it (there is a commercial offering), or you can use it unlimited and with no extra costs than your own server’s if you self-host. It’s all being developed there in the open in case you don’t want to take my word for it: github.com/prose-im
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gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoIs this spam? The first recommendation is for an otherwise paid product that has a 100 user limit on the self-hosted option.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’m happy to be more formally corrected, but this is from their pricing page.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Just below you’ll find a section about “self hosting (soon)”, though you can already use it with your own XMPP account as a standalone client (no questions asked), like I do, or, optionally, with the server-side components (opensource prosody module).
leetnewb@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Good to see prose moving along.
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I don’t see what you’re describing 🤷 Soon only appears once on the page and not in this context for me.
I do notice that the product comparison chart lists the same 100 user limit for self-hosted.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Oh, prose does? Yikes.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
See my other comment: if you already have an XMPP account, prose is just another client that you can use however you like, for free (and at that point, everyone should be having an XMPP account, if you ask me). If you don’t have an account, they can act as service provider (but this being a decentralized network, the don’t want to encourage hosting everyone on the same server).