So is this why people stopped posting here? Seems unnecessarily restrictive.

Hahaha. Seriously? No one had to promote Gmail heavily to bootstrap it, everyone and their grandma wanted a free unlimited email account. It is kind of ridiculous to lump xmpp into that as a selling point at all.

Late to respond but it really depends on if there is overlap and they use containers and specific systems job names so I wouldn’t expect it to collide at all. I use my own playbooks as well as this one without any problems so far and I’m multiple years in.

Gtalk had every Gmail user at the time. There is no way that didn’t dwarf any users of xmpp.

People seem to be confusing Google effectively just defederating with XMPP and taking their users elsewhere with them somehow usurping the offering. Their apathy with respect to embracing xmpp and not extending it for reasons I recall being too much work for them and then moving to completely different protocol (hangouts) is not the same as EEE. It is taking your users and going home. It isn’t like XMPP was this giant success that Google then used to steal users from it.

Moving from purely my own rolled distribution to the recommended Ansible pathway has basically made running matrix with all the bells and whistles a no-op. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/

Part of the value proposition of e2e encryption is to protect against a server admin who wants to snoop on who or what you are saying to anyone.

Those 300 people cannot get a full picture of all your activity and you are willingly giving them whatever information they are seeing. The server admin doesn’t have to be in any chats and you will likely have no idea they are snooping on you.

Yep. I keep trolling the issue around giving an option to disable encryption entirely because it is terrible and thus almost useless.