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u_tamtam@programming.dev 4 weeks agoIt 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
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’m happy to be more formally corrected, but this is from their pricing page.
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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.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
It appears as a tooltip here
Anyhow, where I intended to draw your intention was on prose.org/downloads
You can just download the client for your platform (assuming one is available), or use the web one (otherwise), or just build one from the sources I linked (which is what I do), and login with your usual XMPP account. Would you need an account and have to decide which provider to register with, this would come handy: providers.xmpp.net
In this set-up, prose.org isn’t hosting your account and will of course let you interact with thousands of users or more, like any other XMPP client.